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7 November 2025

Not enough collaboration on sustainability between universities, says Young Academy

Universities and UMCs keep trying to reinvent the wheel in their efforts to become more sustainable, says The Young Academy, which calls for closer cooperation. So far, four institutions have endorsed this message.

31 October 2025

What do the election results mean for students and higher education?

The future of higher education and research looks a little brighter again. D66 has won the parliamentary elections, while PVV has been dealt a blow by voters.

30 October 2025

Senate approves additional cuts

On Tuesday, the Senate approved the supplementary education budget for 2025, which includes more than 400 million euros in additional cuts. A motion by D66 and other parties to scrap these cuts was rejected.

14 October 2025

CPB analysis: extra money for education or further cuts?

An economic analysis of this election cycle’s party manifestos shows that D66, GroenLinks-PvdA and Volt intend to increase spending on education and research by billions, whereas the VVD wants even greater budget cuts.

9 October 2025

How fake data, dodgy journals and sham conferences are contaminating science

In their pursuit of money and prestige, many researchers play fast and loose with the rules of academia. Science journalist Stan van Pelt delved into the world of research fraud, fake articles and sham conferences and wrote a book about…

2 October 2025

Appeal to policymakers: ‘Don’t gut education’

Higher education institutions, vocational schools and students are calling on The Hague one last time to reverse the cuts to education budgets, and to provide inflation relief.

2 October 2025

Graduates with a migration background less likely to find work

Graduates with one or two foreign-born parents still find it harder to start their careers than those whose parents were both born in the Netherlands. The gap is small but persistent.

23 September 2025

Government to proceed with education cuts ahead of election

Major cutbacks to education and research? With a general election fast approaching, a good proportion of the House of Representatives believe it’s time to call a halt. But a proposal to halt the cuts has been voted down.

12 September 2025

KNAW wants to expel Israel from European research programme

More and more researchers are calling Israel’s violence in Gaza ‘genocidal’, says the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The country should therefore no longer be allowed to participate in the European research programme Horizon.

10 September 2025

Narrow path for undocumented students: first knowledge migrant, then dutch citizen

Few young people without residence papers study at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences. Still, at least three of them have managed to obtain Dutch citizenship – thanks in part to their studies.

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