3TU recruitmentThe 3TU partnership (Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Twente) has started a recruitment campaign, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
The aim of the campaign is to recruit approximately 30 new professors for the five 3TU Centers of Excellence. The campaign began with advertisements in the Dutch newspapers De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad, followed by advertisements in Nature & Science magazine. After this first wave, advertisements will be placed in specific media in which the Centers will present their own vacancies for professors. Around 75 professors who are already working at one of the three universities are carrying out research in the five focal areas of the Centers: Dependable ICT Systems, Sustainable Energy Technologies, Multiscale Phenomena, Bio-Nano Applications and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.
www.3TU.nl
New EU fund
Dutch Education Under-secretary Bruins wants to set up a fund to finance students from other EU countries. If the Dutch Parliament agrees with the proposal, the fund will be set up in 2007. The Dutch Ministry of Education has earmarked 2 million euro for the fund, which will increase to 5.5 million annually beginning in 2009. For a Dutch university or polytechnic to qualify for this fund, at least 1.5% of the students enrolled must come from one of the European Union countries.
Dropped
The highest placed Dutch university in the ‘World Top 100’ published by the British newspaper The Times was TU Eindhoven, which was ranked in 67th place. TU Delft, which last year was ranked the highest of all Dutch universities in this newspaper poll (53rd place), fell to 86th place in this year’s ranking. According to The Times, seven Dutch universities are now ranked in the top 100 of the world. This is three more Dutch universities than last year.
Hello!
A mobile phone call caused a serious accident last week on the Mijnbouwstraat. A 51-year-old woman from Delft stopped her car on the cyclist path to make a phone call. A 17-year old driving a scooter didn’t see the car and crashed into the back of it. The moped driver was taken to the hospital and treated for breathing problems resulting from the accident.
Debts
The IB-Groep claims it has no idea why the amount of money students borrow from banks has nearly doubled in the past three years. But Irene van den Broek, National Student Union chairwoman, knows: “Studying has become much more expensive recently, so students must choose: work or borrow.” Van Den Broek is troubled by the fact that so many students are now in debt and says the government must increase the basic student grant amount: “245 euro per month is not enough.”
Grave drunkard
A strange incident on the TU campus last week. After a drunken man had dug a grave in the Jaffa cemetery, he got into his car and drove off in reverse at a high rate of speed, just missing two pedestrians on the Christiaan Huygensweg. The car crashed into a lamppost near the Aula, wrecking the car and the lamppost. The man then fled on foot into Delft center, where the police later arrested him.
Noise
Eleven Chinese students living in the TU’s space-boxes sent a letter of complaint to the VSSD Student Union about the noise from the construction work being carried out next to the space-boxes. The VSSD has appealed to TU Executive Board President Paul Rullmann on behalf of the students. In the letter sent to the VSSD by TU student Y. Lin, writing on behalf of the other Chinese space-box residents, Lin complained that the construction work begins “very early in the morning to late in the evening”, is very loud and causes the metal space-boxes to vibrate, and “the annoying and disturbing noise gives us headaches and we cannot concentrate on studying.” The construction work is also done on weekends. The space-box students met to discuss the problem, and, according to Lin’s letter, “drew the conclusion that only the VSSD can help us.” Thomas Poiesz, VSSD secretary, has written to President Rullmann, outlining the problems caused by this noisy construction work, which, Poiesz concludes, “is unacceptable for the students and the VSSD.”
3TU recruitment
The 3TU partnership (Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Twente) has started a recruitment campaign, both in the Netherlands and internationally. The aim of the campaign is to recruit approximately 30 new professors for the five 3TU Centers of Excellence. The campaign began with advertisements in the Dutch newspapers De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad, followed by advertisements in Nature & Science magazine. After this first wave, advertisements will be placed in specific media in which the Centers will present their own vacancies for professors. Around 75 professors who are already working at one of the three universities are carrying out research in the five focal areas of the Centers: Dependable ICT Systems, Sustainable Energy Technologies, Multiscale Phenomena, Bio-Nano Applications and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.
www.3TU.nl
New EU fund
Dutch Education Under-secretary Bruins wants to set up a fund to finance students from other EU countries. If the Dutch Parliament agrees with the proposal, the fund will be set up in 2007. The Dutch Ministry of Education has earmarked 2 million euro for the fund, which will increase to 5.5 million annually beginning in 2009. For a Dutch university or polytechnic to qualify for this fund, at least 1.5% of the students enrolled must come from one of the European Union countries.
Dropped
The highest placed Dutch university in the ‘World Top 100’ published by the British newspaper The Times was TU Eindhoven, which was ranked in 67th place. TU Delft, which last year was ranked the highest of all Dutch universities in this newspaper poll (53rd place), fell to 86th place in this year’s ranking. According to The Times, seven Dutch universities are now ranked in the top 100 of the world. This is three more Dutch universities than last year.
Hello!
A mobile phone call caused a serious accident last week on the Mijnbouwstraat. A 51-year-old woman from Delft stopped her car on the cyclist path to make a phone call. A 17-year old driving a scooter didn’t see the car and crashed into the back of it. The moped driver was taken to the hospital and treated for breathing problems resulting from the accident.
Debts
The IB-Groep claims it has no idea why the amount of money students borrow from banks has nearly doubled in the past three years. But Irene van den Broek, National Student Union chairwoman, knows: “Studying has become much more expensive recently, so students must choose: work or borrow.” Van Den Broek is troubled by the fact that so many students are now in debt and says the government must increase the basic student grant amount: “245 euro per month is not enough.”
Grave drunkard
A strange incident on the TU campus last week. After a drunken man had dug a grave in the Jaffa cemetery, he got into his car and drove off in reverse at a high rate of speed, just missing two pedestrians on the Christiaan Huygensweg. The car crashed into a lamppost near the Aula, wrecking the car and the lamppost. The man then fled on foot into Delft center, where the police later arrested him.
Noise
Eleven Chinese students living in the TU’s space-boxes sent a letter of complaint to the VSSD Student Union about the noise from the construction work being carried out next to the space-boxes. The VSSD has appealed to TU Executive Board President Paul Rullmann on behalf of the students. In the letter sent to the VSSD by TU student Y. Lin, writing on behalf of the other Chinese space-box residents, Lin complained that the construction work begins “very early in the morning to late in the evening”, is very loud and causes the metal space-boxes to vibrate, and “the annoying and disturbing noise gives us headaches and we cannot concentrate on studying.” The construction work is also done on weekends. The space-box students met to discuss the problem, and, according to Lin’s letter, “drew the conclusion that only the VSSD can help us.” Thomas Poiesz, VSSD secretary, has written to President Rullmann, outlining the problems caused by this noisy construction work, which, Poiesz concludes, “is unacceptable for the students and the VSSD.”
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