Up to and including 9 March, all students can complete the National Student Survey. The survey is an important tool to measure the quality of higher education.
If the number of non-European students decreases by 10 percent, universities will face an additional deficit of 37 million euros. So says accountancy firm PwC in a report on the financial position of universities. The firm sounded the alarm last week: with falling numbers of national students, they will get less money anyway. Now that
DUO, the agency in charge of administering student financing, incorrectly told 8,590 international students that they would receive compensation in connection with the student loan system. The error represents a total of 6.6 million euros.
Does degree programme X really need to be offered in English? Paul Rullmann, outgoing chair of the committee in charge of deciding this question, understands the rationale for introducing a language assessment. “But not”, he says, “in the context of a set of spending cuts.”
The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) sees that students are receiving relatively less internship payments. Technical students are the luckiest, as they receive the highest amount on average.
The majority of the cuts in education and research can go ahead as planned, the deal on the budget for education, science and culture that was concluded Wednesday reveals. Of the 2 billion euros, a little shy of 700 million will be reversed.
Ninety-nine physics demonstrations for free, that’s what the latest TU Delft’s open interactive textbook has to offer. Complete with videos and educational notes for students and teachers alike. “Why not let others benefit from years of work?”
The government’s proposed cuts to education and research will falter in the Senate, the opposition parties warn. But judging by Tuesday evening’s debate in the House of Representatives, the four ruling coalition parties do not seem overly concerned about that prospect. “For now, we are putting national security first.”
D66, CDA and JA21 say they will use their power in the Senate to halt many of the proposed government cuts in education and research. Their announcement comes as the House of Representatives gears up to debate the budget for education, science and culture.
