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12 April 2025
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Student Life & Society 3 April 2025

International students are sticking around to work

Roughly 30 percent of international graduates still live in the Netherlands five years after graduation, which is more than in previous years. A significant number opt to stay here after graduating in Eindhoven in particular.
Science & Education 22 January 2025

Coalition parties decided they do in fact want international students

The House of Representatives has called on the government to prepare an action plan aimed at ‘retaining’ international students in the Netherlands. A resolution to this effect received the backing of three coalition parties yesterday.
Science & Education 17 December 2024

Further budget cuts for international students may not be necessary

According to an analysis by HOP, there may no longer be a need for higher education institutions to cut their budgets for foreign students, as they’ve already reached their target. If the institutions attract the same number of international students…
Science & Education 31 October 2024

Screening of foreign students and researchers still years away

There is no immediate prospect of government security screening for foreign students and researchers. Justis, the organisation charged with this task, says it will not be able to start the screening process until 2028. The minister himself also needs more…
Science & Education 4 October 2024

‘Abolishing English-language higher education impoverishes Netherlands’

If all Bachelor’s programmes became Dutch-taught, higher education would shrink by 8.6 percent, researchers from Groningen have calculated. International students and scientists will stay away and this will end up costing the Netherlands a lot of money.
Student Life & Society 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.
Student Life & Society 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.
Science & Education 23 February 2024

This student quota for English-taught tracks won’t survive, warns lawyer

A limit on the number of students enrolling for English-taught tracks leads to indirect discrimination based on nationality. And that is not permitted, warns Job Buiting, who previously served as a lawyer for the Ministry of Education.
Science & Education 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.
Science & Education 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.
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