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Science & Education 3 February 2026

Agreement: education cuts scrapped, little extra funding

The incoming minority government of D66, CDA and VVD wants to reverse the planned cuts to education and has set aside 1.5 billion euros to do so. Major new investments in research won’t be made, except perhaps via defence spending.
Science & Education 28 January 2026

CDA makes case for English-taught education

Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater if degree programmes, under political pressure, increasingly switch back to Dutch? CDA fears so. ‘We’re shooting ourselves in the foot.’
Science & Education 11 December 2025

Milestone: almost 30 percent of full professors are now women

New data shows that three in ten full professors at Dutch universities are women. At executive-board level, women are now in the majority.
Science & Education 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.
Campus & Culture 24 September 2025

Dangerous books in the university library

From Harry Potter to the Quran, the newly openend Banned Books collection of the VU Library contains books that for some reason or other are banned by institutions and governments all over the world.
Science & Education 8 July 2025

The Young Academy sounds alarm over power of tech companies in education

Higher education institutions are leaning too much on commercial tech companies, warns The Young Academy. This puts the core values of science at risk. In a manifesto, the society calls for a radical change of direction.
Science & Education 7 July 2025

Internationalisation act delayed again

Education minister Eppo Bruins was actually supposed to modify the bill aimed at managing the influx of foreign students before the summer. But he needs more time, he says.
Science & Education 8 May 2025

25 million to bring threatened top researchers here

In the years ahead, 25 million euros will be available to bring scientists from the United States (and other countries) to the Netherlands. This is revealed in the ‘supplementary budget’ that was recently published by the government.
Science & Education 24 April 2025

Spring Memorandum: new cutbacks in higher education

Over time, funding of higher education institutions will be reduced by 59 million euros, reads the Spring Memorandum. It’s one of the new cutbacks in education and research.
Science & Education 31 March 2025

‘We learn how to use AI from Instagram and TikTok’

While VU Amsterdam struggles to keep up with the rapidly evolving AI landscape, students are getting important information about the technology from social media rather than the classroom.