TU student slower – Fears for English Masters – Troubles financed Engineers earn a lot more money than other university graduates, according to a survey conducted by the sixteen-thousand member Royal Institute for Engineers.
A Dutch engineer’s average gross salary per year is f. 120,000. The excellent wages of senior engineers are mainly responsible for such high figure, as engineers older than 55 years-old earn 2.5 times as much as engineers younger than thirty years-old. Civil and chemical engineers earn the most, and a university-educated engineer earns twenty to forty percent more than engineers who graduated from technical colleges. Furthermore, it appears eighteen percent of the interviewees works less than 38 hours a week, and a third of them drive lease cars.
TU student slower
Only 28 percent of the first crop of five-year curriculum students graduated within the allotted six years, so it appears from the statistic yearbook 2000/2001. Previously, this graduation-within-six-years percentage fluctuated around forty percent. This shift is remarkable as the curriculum was changed from four to five years to bring the official and the informal study duration closer together, thus making the degree-courses more ‘studyable’. Apparently, this didn’t occur. ”It’s totally unscientific to blame the five-year curriculum for this delay,” Rector Karel Wakker states. ”It’s worrisome that students need longer for their study. We shall analyse the cause thoroughly. Maybe the changing attitudes of students plays a part, as they have more jobs on the side nowadays.”
Fears for English Masters
The student council is in favour of an English-language MSc phase. It will better prepare students for the job market and scientific community, although lectures taught in English will be less efficient, the council expects. However, the council does fear the university’s lack of concrete actions in applying the English language. The council therefore wants the instructors’ command of English tested before they are allowed to teach, and students should receive feedback concerning their own English-language efficiency, so if necessary they can take language courses. Also, the faculties need to realise the financial, personal and organisational consequences and detail them in a plan.
Troubles financed
With the Foreign Student Financial Support scheme (FSFS), the TU will provide financial assistance to international students whosuffer from a disease, handicap, or an educational force majeure. The latter occurs, when, owing to a course’s structure, it is virtually impossible to successfully take the final examination within the prescribed period. The FSFS is part of TU’s student charter for 2000-2001. More information at www.ssc.tudelft.nl.
Engineers earn a lot more money than other university graduates, according to a survey conducted by the sixteen-thousand member Royal Institute for Engineers. A Dutch engineer’s average gross salary per year is f. 120,000. The excellent wages of senior engineers are mainly responsible for such high figure, as engineers older than 55 years-old earn 2.5 times as much as engineers younger than thirty years-old. Civil and chemical engineers earn the most, and a university-educated engineer earns twenty to forty percent more than engineers who graduated from technical colleges. Furthermore, it appears eighteen percent of the interviewees works less than 38 hours a week, and a third of them drive lease cars.
TU student slower
Only 28 percent of the first crop of five-year curriculum students graduated within the allotted six years, so it appears from the statistic yearbook 2000/2001. Previously, this graduation-within-six-years percentage fluctuated around forty percent. This shift is remarkable as the curriculum was changed from four to five years to bring the official and the informal study duration closer together, thus making the degree-courses more ‘studyable’. Apparently, this didn’t occur. ”It’s totally unscientific to blame the five-year curriculum for this delay,” Rector Karel Wakker states. ”It’s worrisome that students need longer for their study. We shall analyse the cause thoroughly. Maybe the changing attitudes of students plays a part, as they have more jobs on the side nowadays.”
Fears for English Masters
The student council is in favour of an English-language MSc phase. It will better prepare students for the job market and scientific community, although lectures taught in English will be less efficient, the council expects. However, the council does fear the university’s lack of concrete actions in applying the English language. The council therefore wants the instructors’ command of English tested before they are allowed to teach, and students should receive feedback concerning their own English-language efficiency, so if necessary they can take language courses. Also, the faculties need to realise the financial, personal and organisational consequences and detail them in a plan.
Troubles financed
With the Foreign Student Financial Support scheme (FSFS), the TU will provide financial assistance to international students whosuffer from a disease, handicap, or an educational force majeure. The latter occurs, when, owing to a course’s structure, it is virtually impossible to successfully take the final examination within the prescribed period. The FSFS is part of TU’s student charter for 2000-2001. More information at www.ssc.tudelft.nl.
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