Independent journalism about VU Amsterdam | Since 1953
21 November 2024
Magazine
Nederlands

HOP

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.
25 September 2024

It pays off to take your case to the Rent Tribunal

It is worth contacting the Rent Tribunal (Huurcommissie) if you feel you are paying excessive rent or service charges. In eight out of ten cases, room tenants were fully vindicated, reports news agency ANP.
19 September 2024

Feasible or not, cutbacks are going ahead

Fewer international students, the slow-progress penalty… Even if the plans turn out not to be feasible, the cabinet is going to cut the higher education and research budget by hundreds of millions of euros.
6 September 2024

International researchers bag most EU grants

Fifty-one young academics at Dutch universities and research institutes will receive a European Starting Grant of an average of 1.5 million euros. Two-thirds of the winners are international researchers.
4 September 2024

Cutbacks are main focus at alternative opening of the academic year

About two hundred protesters came to Domplein in Utrecht on Monday morning for the ‘Alternative opening’ of the new academic year. Down with the cutbacks, was the message. Perhaps there will even be a strike.
4 September 2024

Minister defends recruiting international engineering students

With the rising popularity of engineering courses, programmes in healthcare and education might be affected, acknowledges Education Minister Eppo Bruins. This is one reason why engineering programmes continue to recruit students from abroad.
27 August 2024

Hundreds fewer international students coming to the Netherlands

More than 17 thousand students from outside Europe want to study here, reports the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND). This is a decrease of a few hundred compared to last year.
27 August 2024

New Education Minister is unfazed by Gaza protests

Students will keep protesting against the ties of higher education institutions with Israel. The new Minister of Education seems to be reacting to this in much the same way as his predecessor.
27 August 2024

State of science: good news with a downside

Dutch science has flourished in recent years, sees the Rathenau Instituut. But the required cultural change is coming about slowly, the workload is still sky-high and the new government wants to make cuts yet again.
11 July 2024

Student unions: ‘The student movement was in an uproar’

It was a tumultuous year for leaders of the student movement. Suddenly the government fell and it was all hands on deck for ISO and LSVb. And out of nowhere, the fine for slow students made a comeback. “It turned…
HOP -
Get in contact with