HOP, Author at Ad Valvas

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.

17 January 2024

Appeal to ABP: stop investing in occupied Palestinian territories

Pension fund ABP must stop investing in companies that facilitate the occupation of Palestinian territories, activists say. ABP has adopted a neutral stance for the moment.

16 January 2024

Minority teachers and students self-censors

What can you say and what’s better left unsaid? A ‘considerable minority’ of researchers, teachers and students has applied self-censorship over the past years, a report reveals.

5 January 2024

The Academic Thermometer: how are researchers doing in academia?

Members of The Young Academy want to gauge the temperature of academics in the Netherlands: how are they faring in terms of stress levels, enjoyment and social safety?

14 December 2023

Fraudulent scheme allowed 260 Romanians to obtain student finance

A Romanian organisation has offered 260 students fictitious work over the past five years so that they could apply for student finance in the Netherlands, it has emerged from replies to parliamentary questions.

11 December 2023

How do you assess whether English is the language of instruction?

The NVAO, charged with monitoring the quality of higher education, asks programmes why they teach in English. Outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf explains the process behind this to the House of Representatives.

7 December 2023

Dijkgraaf calls for freedom of press in higher education

Outgoing Minister Dijkgraaf thinks it’s important for media of higher education institutions to be able to operate independently. He said this in response to parliamentary questions about the conflict at Cursor, Eindhoven University of Technology’s news site.

7 December 2023