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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.
8 September 2025

I won’t find a room anyway, students think

Fewer and fewer students are moving out of home. They continue to live with their parents and have given up hope of getting a room, the National Student Housing Monitor shows.
3 September 2025

New Education Minister compares rainbow crosswalk to swastika

Gouke Moes, a member of the Provincial Executive in Groningen, will become the new Education Minister, BBB announced on Monday evening. Moes stirred controversy with tweets about a defaced rainbow zebra crossing.
1 September 2025

Forum and Volt election manifestos: totally different, slight overlap

Volt wants to make studying accessible to all, Forum voor Democratie wants to allow fewer students to enrol in higher education. And yet, there’s a slight overlap between these two polar opposites.
26 August 2025

PVV and CDA outline their plans for higher education

PVV and CDA have now also unveiled their election manifestos. A key point of divergence between them is their stance on international student arrivals.
12 July 2025

4,600 signatures against ‘equal opportunities’ in flatmate interviews

In a short amount of time, a petition against DUWO’s plea for ‘equal opportunities’ in flatmate interviews for housing has been signed 4,600 times. Residents want to continue to decide for themselves who their new flatmate will be.
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