For the fourth consecutive year, university enrollment has declined. This is shown by the final counts. Universities in Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen in particular are seeing losses, while technical universities and Rotterdam are recording growth. In September, nearly 58,500 students started a university bachelor's degree, one percent less than last year. This is mainly because
Defence minister Ruben Brekelmans was escorted offstage at the University of Amsterdam Thursday for ‘security reasons’, as protesters disrupted his appearance by banging on windows and allegedly assaulting campus security. The university says it will report the incident to the police. As a guest on Room for Discussion, UvA’s debate programme, Brekelmans (VVD) was supposed
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of former part-time students of Erasmus University Rotterdam in a lawsuit over excessive tuition fees. They paid around EUR 34,000 for their two-year Master’s in Business Administration, even though their programme was Government funded. Officially, the university was only allowed to charge the statutory tuition fee. This issue
The number of international students in the Netherlands hardly needs to decrease to meet the planned budget cuts, Education Minister Eppo Bruins confirmed to the Senate. If the current number of students remains the same, the savings in higher education are likely to be met. Originally, the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB coalition parties wanted
Few young people in the Netherlands are sitting around doing nothing. Figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) show that 77 percent of young people aged 15 to 24 have a job. This percentage is significantly higher than in other EU countries. By comparison, in Denmark, the number two country, 57 percent of young
TU Delft intends to press charges in a case of a former PhD candidate who has made negative statements on social media about the supervision during his unfinished PhD trajectory at TU Delft. The university announced so in a release on their website. The spokesperson did not provide further details on the exact grounds for
In the trial of Fouad L., the prosecution is demanding 30 years in prison supplemented with preventive detention preventive custody ('tbs' in Dutch). Fouad L. killed three people and set fire to his home and the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam on September 28, 2023. The victims were his neighbor, her daughter and a teacher from
In a damning report on art university of applied sciences ArtEZ, the Inspectorate of Education speaks of mismanagement. There would be neglect of care for students and staff. The news leaked on Monday via newspaper NRC and the report (in Dutch) published on Tuesday confirms the allegations. The inspectorate's investigation focused, among other things, on
The hackers who attacked Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) had access to the login credentials of a student and a staff member, reports Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant (in Dutch) on Friday based on anonymous sources. TU/e refuses to confirm or deny this when asked by the news agency HOP. The university's spokesperson stated that no
This week, the new contemplation room in the TU Delft Library has opened. The space is located on the third floor and is accessible to students, staff and visitors who want to meditate, reflect or rest. It is the second contemplation room on campus; the first is located at sports and cultural centre X. A
