Student Portal
Posted in October 2016
How to: Do’s and don’ts during exams
Before you read any further, first a quick check: Have you registered for you exam?
Okay, now that you have, you might have noticed during previous exams or during your central exams at high school: they’re a serious thing! We love to help you out so we made this small illustration about things you should keep in mind while making your exams.
Now they might seem obvious but, for instance, did you know that when you do not turn your phone completely off, you could be seen as committing fraud? Better to avoid that risk altogether. And if you have any brothers or sisters you can definitely relate to this one: hearing someone eat noisy foods is so annoying! Continue reading
Limited access to many TU Delft ICT services on 15 and 16 October
It is time for Maintenance once again! During this ICT Maintenance Weekend on 15 and 16 October, you might experience service interruptions affecting a large number of ICT services on Saturday, including A-select/MDS, Blackboard, PeopleSoft and the TU Delft website. There will also be short network interruptions affecting the wired and wireless network. Furthermore, maintenance work will be carried out on the faculty-managed servers on Saturday.
When you want to study or work in the CEG building, you will be unable to access the TU Delft network (both wired and wireless) for the entire day while the wired connections are being replaced. (check out this link for more information)
Important: In the event of an emergency, call +31 15 2781226!
Please take the maintenance activities into account when planning your work. If the maintenance work on Saturday takes longer than expected, it will be continued on Sunday. The university apologises for any inconvenience caused by the maintenance work and thank you for your understanding. You can find more information about these activities here.
If you have any questions about the maintenance weekend, please contact the Service Desk in your building. If you would like to remain informed about all maintenance work and possible disruptions, click here.
CEG Building opens again on October 12th
As you might have read in the email you received earlier this Tuesday: the problems with the electricity at CEG are under control. On Wednesday October 12th all educational, research and office activities in the main building (building 23) can continue as scheduled. Report any irregularity that you might encounter to the Service desk in the usual manner. But be nice to them, they’ve been working very hard to get everything up and running again.
In the words of CEG dean Bert Geerken: “We noticed that many colleagues and students have been very creative in solving complicated situations that occurred when the building was closed. This provided us with the opportunity to fully focus on repairing the situation. Thank you all for your effort!”
Next week might be the time to skip your social drink
Students in general, but especially first year students, do not have the healthiest reputation. “Studeren is combineren”, and therefore, “4 hours of sleep a night is plenty”. Since you never learned how to cook for yourself, you often end up with a pizza from the fridge, and the 200m walk from your house to the supermarket (with a crate of beer in each hand) perfectly counts as sport. Continue reading
You’re studying at a highly ranked university
Halfway in September the Times Higher Education rankings came out. TU Delft ranked at place 59! The previous year our university was 66th place, which means we moved up 7 places. Happy days.
Besides the general ranking of THE, the TU Delft also made three subject rankings. In the list of Engineering & Technology the university came in 20th, we came 35th in the list of Computer Sciences and in the new list for Physical Sciences TU Delft ranked place 58.
THE Ranking
On a yearly basis THE generates a general Times Higher Education World Ranking between 980 universities worldwide. Within this ranking, universities are compared based upon 5 indicators: research, education, citation, internationalisation and income from the industry. Changes within the methodology of ranking, have changed the outcomes of the rankings over the years.
Rankings
The THE-Ranking, the Shanghai-ranking and the QS-ranking together form the leading university rankings worldwide. All three rankings have different methodologies with their own benefits and shortcomings. Within the QS Ranking this year the TU Delft ranked 62 compared to 64 last year.
Take a look at Times Higher Education Ranking for additional information.
Have you ever read an article with the word ‘ranking’ in it so many times? This must be a record.. Someone should make an article ranking.
