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14 November 2024

Minister should take next step against DUO discrimination

Education minister Eppo Bruins has promised to compensate students who fell victim to education agency DUO’s overzealous anti-fraud campaign. This is good news, but what about the ‘reverse burden of proof’?
8 November 2024

UvA estimates Palestine protest costs at 4,1 million euros

This summer’s student protests against the war in Gaza have cost the University of Amsterdam a total of 4.1 million euros. The delay to the construction of the university library is cited as the biggest drain on the university’s finances.
7 November 2024

Most students just pick a fun study programme

Above all, the degree programme of their choice had to be fun, the vast majority of students say. The chances of getting a good job were generally not the decisive factor. They often didn’t find their information on the internet.
31 October 2024

‘Universities should work for defence’

To offset some of the major budget cuts they face, higher education institutions should focus more on defence research. This is according to Jos Benschop, of the AWTI advisory council.
31 October 2024

Screening of foreign students and researchers still years away

There is no immediate prospect of government security screening for foreign students and researchers. Justis, the organisation charged with this task, says it will not be able to start the screening process until 2028. The minister himself also needs more…
16 October 2024

Joint universities suffer deficit of 100 million

With drastic cutbacks on the horizon, universities are seeing their buffers shrink, a report by accounting agency EY shows. Last year, the universities made a loss of 100 million euros. This year, it will probably be 250 million.
4 October 2024

‘Abolishing English-language higher education impoverishes Netherlands’

If all Bachelor’s programmes became Dutch-taught, higher education would shrink by 8.6 percent, researchers from Groningen have calculated. International students and scientists will stay away and this will end up costing the Netherlands a lot of money.
3 October 2024

Job was a pretend student: ‘I realized people accept lies really easily’

For years, Job van Ballegoijen de Jong pretended to be a student, caught up in his own lies and not knowing how to stop. Now he has written a book about his experiences. “I want to show others that you…
3 October 2024

Minister makes cutbacks, but demands reduced workload at universities

Cutbacks or not, the workload in science must be reduced. That is what Minister Eppo Bruins writes to the House of Representatives. It’s “worrying” that after all these years, universities haven’t turned words into deeds.
1 October 2024

International students prone to be involved in cycling accidents

They love cycling, but also tend to be accident-prone. Internationals have more accidents and near accidents than Dutch students, according to research by TeamAlert.
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