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21 December 2024
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Internationalization 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.
Debate 23 February 2024

ScienceGuide is saved, for now

News website ScienceGuide will remain operational for the time being. The editorial team reports that a fundraising campaign has raised sufficient funds to keep the platform online.
Education 20 February 2024

University student council wants better career services

VU Amsterdam should involve study associations more in career guidance, the university student council states. But what do the university’s Career Services think about that?
Internationalization 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.
Internationalization 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.
Students 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.
Internationalization 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.
Staff 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.
Politics 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.
Debate 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.