TU Delft should not favor women who want to study aeronautical engineering. The Education Inspectorate reprimanded the university. According to the inspectorate, the plan is in violation of the law. on University website We can therefore read that this policy is not being implemented “at the moment”.

The university announced last January that it wanted to implement a preferential policy for the next academic year. As a pilot, 30 percent of undergraduate study places will be reserved for women.

Now women make up 20% of training courses. According to the university, this percentage has not really increased in years.

Efforts to get more women to enroll in training have not borne fruit. “We worked with targeted media campaigns, such as using role models, but this only had a limited impact,” says training manager Joris Melkert. De Volkskrant. “We saw quotas as a last resort.”

TU Delft does not accept this. “We remain fully committed to providing a more inclusive and diverse learning environment for our students,” Delft University wrote, “and will soon contact the Ministry to discuss how we can move forward with measures to achieve equal opportunities in higher education.”

The Afghan National Police Agency’s Education Inspectorate said it recognized there was a need for more female students in technical courses, “but the law does not currently allow preference based on a person’s gender.”

For students who want to start the course in September, a regular selection based on ranking will apply again, TU Delft reports. Every year there are approximately 3,000 registrations for the undergraduate programme. There are a total of 440 places available. Prospective students will hear on April 15 whether they can start in September.