Posted in 2020

Due to the cancellation of the Minor event that would have taken place on 30 March, online minor information sessions can be followed via Zoom on 6 and 7 April. The sessions are organised without obligation by the minor coordinators, who will give a presentation and who will be able to answer your questions about the minor concerned. On the website you will find the online minor sessions with the date and time they are scheduled (keep an eye on the updates).

Due to the pressure on the switch from physical to online education and examination, not all minors will be offered an online session.

For now these are only sessions for the selection of minors. The dates for the non-selection minors will be added to this page as soon as possible.

The Dutch government has announced that all corona measures will be extended until Tuesday 28 April (Dutch). These include: working from home as much as possible, observing the hygiene measures and keeping a distance of 1.5 metres from each other. In the week before 28 April, the government will decide on necessary measures for the period thereafter.

TU Delft had already decided to offer education online as much as possible until at least 1 June. We are also preparing for the situation where education can only be provided online until the end of the academic year. Should government policy be relaxed in the meantime, we will consider which forms of education and/or testing can take place on campus again.

The Executive Board of TU Delft is holding several Zoom conference talks with students. During these online sessions, Vice Rector Manificus Rob Mudde will listen to your remarks and answer your questions. The Executive Board is interested to know how you are doing in these challenging times and how this crisis is affecting you. Moreover, the Executive Board would like to hear your opinions regarding how TU Delft is managing the corona crisis.

When? Wednesday 1 April and Friday 3 April. All of sessions are from 17:00 – 17:45.

How to participate? Send an email to student-communication@tudelft.nl. Groups will be formed in the order in which requests are received. Students who wish to participate will be informed to which session they are invited.

Q&As coming out of these sessions will be added to the ‘Education’ section of the ‘Current measurements’ page on the TU Delft website.

More information: https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/liveblog-vice-rector-gaat-zoomen-met-studenten.

In compliance with the measures taken by the Dutch government, TU Delft has decided to cancel the upcoming minor event. On the website minors.tudelft.nl you can find useful information to help you select a minor that suits your needs and interest. The registration periods stay the same.

The registration periods on 1 April and 1 May start at 13:00

Registration period for selection minors:
1 to 15 April 2020 – selection minors at Leiden, Delft, Rotterdam via Osiris

Registration period for non-selection minors:
1^st period: 1 May to 31 May 2020 – non-selection minors at Leiden, Delft, Rotterdam via Osiris (lottery procedure)

2^nd period: 15 June to 30 June 2020 – registration for places that become available on non-selection minors at TU Delft via Osiris (open registration, first-come-first-served basis)

For more information about the TU policy regarding the Coronavirus, we refer you to the updates on the website.

Examinations to take place as much as possible (scroll down for the Dutch version)

On 23 March, the measures to control the spread of the coronavirus were further strengthened. In consultation with the other Dutch universities we have therefore decided, for the time being, that no campus education will take place until 1 June, and that education will be offered online as much as possible.

Exams

This means that no exams can be held physically on campus in the third quarter of this academic year. However, the current examination schedule remains valid. We strive to let as many exams as possible go ahead, because postponement also has all kinds of consequences. At the various programmes of study, people are therefore hard at work looking for alternative possibilities and trying to provide clarity about the examinations as soon as possible.

The following has been agreed upon:

• You will hear no later than 4 working days before the scheduled date of the examination, whether it will take place and in what form. These 4 working days are a minimum; where possible, clarity will be provided earlier.
• If an exam has to be postponed, you will hear a new date at a later time, but also as soon as possible.
• Do sign up for exams as soon as possible, because this is important for the organisation of the alternative exams.

We understand that this makes it harder to prepare for exams, especially at a time when there are no study places on campus and you also have to deal with all the other consequences of the corona measures. We have asked lecturers to make sure that you will be given enough time to prepare properly. If you are unable to take part in an examination, due to circumstances such as illness or care duties, please report this to your study advisor and we will then look for a solution together.

At the same time, we ask for your understanding that, under these extraordinary circumstances, it may sometimes take a little longer than you hope before everything is settled. Behind the scenes, lecturers are doing their utmost to ensure that the transition to online education and examination runs as smoothly as possible for you and will keep you informed about this.

Tentamens gaan zo veel mogelijk door

Op 23 maart zijn de maatregelen om de verspreiding van het coronavirus tegen te gaan verder aangescherpt. In overleg met de andere universiteiten hebben we daarom vooralsnog besloten dat er tot 1 juni geen campusonderwijs zal plaatsvinden; onderwijs wordt zoveel mogelijk online aangeboden.

Tentamens

Er kunnen dus ook geen tentamens op de campus worden afgenomen in het derde kwartaal van dit collegejaar. Het huidige tentamenrooster blijft wel geldig. We streven ernaar om toch zoveel mogelijk tentamens door te laten gaan, omdat uitstel ook weer allerlei gevolgen heeft.

De opleidingen zoeken daarom hard naar alternatieve mogelijkheden en streven er naar om zo snel mogelijk duidelijkheid te geven over de tentamens.

Daarbij is het volgende afgesproken:

• Je hoort uiterlijk 4 werkdagen voor de geplande datum van het tentamen of het doorgaat en zo ja, in welke vorm. Die 4 werkdagen zijn een minimum; waar mogelijk wordt eerder duidelijkheid te geven.
• Moet een tentamen worden uitgesteld, dan hoor je op een later tijdstip, maar ook weer zo snel mogelijk, een nieuwe datum.
• Meld je wel zo snel mogelijk aan voor tentamens, want dat is belangrijk voor de organisatie van de alternatieve tentamens.

We begrijpen dat dit alles lastig is voor de voorbereiding op tentamens, zeker in een tijd waarin er ook geen studiewerkplekken zijn op de campus en je bovendien moet omgaan met alle andere gevolgen van de coronamaatregelen. We hebben de docenten gevraagd er rekening mee te houden dat je voldoende tijd krijgt om je goed te kunnen voorbereiden. Mocht je door omstandigheden, bijvoorbeeld ziekte of zorgtaken, niet in staat zijn om deel te nemen aan de toetsing, meld dit dan bij je studieadviseur, dan zoeken we samen naar een oplossing.

We vragen er omgekeerd jullie begrip voor dat het onder deze bijzondere omstandigheden soms wat langer duurt dan je hoopt voordat alles bekend is. Docenten doen achter de schermen hun uiterste best om de omschakeling naar online onderwijs en toetsing voor jullie zo soepel mogelijk te laten verlopen, en informeren jullie daarover.

You can check for updated information, precautionary measures at TU Delft, and other relevant guidelines about the coronavirus on the dedicated Coronavirus information and update pages of the University’s website. These pages are updated regularly, so make sure to visit it for the latest developments.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science together with the representative bodies of universities and the student unions have decided to cancel the yearly National Student Survey (known as NSE and organised by Studykeuze123).
The are two main reasons behind this decision. Carrying out a satisfaction survey during the current coronavirus crisis would not deliver valid results. The second reason is letting the universities focus in their main current priority: organising online education.

For further information here you can find the Ministry official letter (in Dutch).

Osiris will not be available coming weekend (Saturday 28 from 8:00 until Sunday 29 at 17:00) because of a new upgrade. This also means that MyTUDelft app will not work. More information: https://meldingen-ict.tudelft.nl/