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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.’
Society 22 January 2026

Students of Chinese origin perform remarkably well in education

Dutch people of Chinese origin are more likely than average to hold a degree from a higher education institution. Factors such as the mother’s age, parental income and living environment play a role in this.
International 20 January 2026

Lecturers and students must be protected from ‘authoritarian’ Trump, says judge

Foreign lecturers at universities must be given extra protection against the arbitrariness of the Trump administration, an American judge says. The same goes for a group of students and researchers who focus on the Middle East.
Other universities 15 January 2026

Plato must be censored, Texas university believes

It is okay to read Plato, but not when he writes about race or gender. A professor of philosophy at a major university in Texas has been instructed to skip certain texts in his classes.
Internationalization 15 January 2026

Revised Internationalisation bill goes to Council of State

The controversial bill to reduce English-language instruction at higher education institutions is being submitted to the Council of State for review today. This is after a previous version of the bill was amended at the request of the House of…
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.
Politics 24 November 2025

Negotiators receive wish lists from students, education and research sectors

What should the next coalition agree on when it comes to higher education and research? Government formation advisor Sybrand Buma has received letters from the Dutch Student Union, Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) and the Education Council.
Campus 20 November 2025

‘Collaboration offers opportunities for Earth Sciences’

Both students and lecturers are pleased that the Earth Sciences degree programme will continue to exist. The students see opportunities in more intensive collaboration with other organisations. For staff, however, one and a half years of uncertainty has also caused…
Opinion 17 November 2025

Open access, or: our own scientists first

The open-access policy has major disadvantages for poorer and less affluent scholars and societies, argues Hans Radder.
enrolment 12 November 2025

VU attracts significantly less bachelor’s students

The number of new students at VU has declined this academic year. Other universities are facing similar drops in enrolment.