4 december 2008 -
Foreign Master students on scholarships are often forced to live at a subsistence level due to high rents. They are forced to pay these rents because they have almost no choice with regard to their housing. This makes it hard for them to participate in any social activity that is not free. It also impedes their ability to make any Dutch friends, an average budget of 150 euros a month for food and extras leaves them no room at all to go to out to the pub or parties in their spare time. “We basically just eat, sleep and study. That’s it”, says Colombian Systems and Control Master student César Lopez. This emerged during a second meeting of a new international student committee last week.
4 december 2008 -
PromoVE, the PhD candidate association at the TU/e, is planning its annual General Members Meeting on December 12 from 12 to 1 p.m. in Paviljoen A 0.12. All PhD candidates are welcome. The new board for 2009 will be introduced during the meeting.