Delft Polytechnic College

On the history of Delft Polytechnic College and the training of technologists/chemical engineers in particular, see Eijdman Jr. (1906) Nieuwenburg (1955). 

On several occasions, the NCV wrote addresses to parliament or government on issues that were relevant to the chemical profession. An early example is an address from February or March 1905 on the new law on Higher Education. This was, as we have seen above, a very sensitive issue that divided the professors of the universities and the Polytechnic College at Delft. The NCV, therefore, steered a middle course, and included those issues in the address on which the professors of both types of institutions agreed the HBS should give access to university studies in chemistry and pharmacy, and chemistry students should be allowed to shift halfway through their studies from a university to Delft, and vice versa. ... 

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