HOP, Author at Ad Valvas

20 February 2024

Student quota for English-taught tracks will take a year longer

It will take at least another year before study programmes can limit international enrolments by introducing a student quota. Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf says that the House of Representatives’ urgency in the matter will not alter this situation.

19 February 2024

House of Representatives gives higher education right to exclude international students

The House of Representatives voted last week in favour of a special student quota for international students. A majority no longer wants to wait for outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s bill including the same measure.

13 February 2024

Room prices increase sharply, especially in Amsterdam

The cost of renting a room in student cities rose by 11 percent in 2023 to an average of 543 euros per month, according to room rental platform Kamernet. Rents skyrocketed even more in several cities, with Amsterdam leading the…

9 February 2024

Master’s students love VU Amsterdam and UvA

On obtaining their Bachelor’s degree, one in four students at Dutch universities take a Master’s degree at another university. Many of them head for Amsterdam or Rotterdam. Assuming they continue their studies in the Netherlands, that is.

8 February 2024

Slightly fewer international students at universities

Around one in three first-year students at Dutch universities is from abroad, final figures show. There are slightly fewer of them than before.

1 February 2024

Fewer people with migration background than expected attend university

Fewer young people with a migrant background go to university than you might expect. For the first time in years, universities are starting to obtain a clearer view of their academic opportunities.

1 February 2024

Universities offer greater transparency on professors’ ancillary positions

The Netherlands’ fourteen universities have revamped their online registration of the ancillary activities undertaken by their professors. These new registers can be accessed through the website of university association UNL.

24 January 2024

‘Sex education for all first year students’

Sexually transgressive behaviour is more common than higher education institutions realise, warns government commissioner Mariëtte Hamer, who is calling for sex education for first-year students. According to Hamer, “That’s when they start experimenting.”

18 January 2024

Dutch only? “Those kinds of caricatures are utter nonsense”

In the first education debate after the elections, a lot of attention was paid to the intake of international students. VVD and NSC nuanced their electoral rhetoric, while D66 and GroenLinks-PvdA stood up for internationalisation.

17 January 2024

‘The Netherlands needs international students’

Migration has all kinds of advantages and disadvantages, it says in a new report on the Netherlands in the year 2050. But international students and knowledge workers aren’t really the problem.

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