Parliament positive on flex-studies
Determine your own study pace and pay per credit? Flex-studies are coming closer and closer in higher education, now that the House of Representatives still mostly sees advantages. But the Socialist Party (SP) and the Green Left (GroenLinks) are still critical.
Just before the Christmas holidays, the House of Representatives received an evaluation of an experiment on flex-study. In this system, students take fewer subjects per year and pay less in tuition fees.
The idea behind it is that it could help top athletes, carers, entrepreneurs and students with a functional impairment, for example. It would make higher education more accessible.
The new Cabinet may submit a bill to make flex-study possible officially, former Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven wrote in a letter accompanying the evaluation report. It is not yet known what her successor and party colleague Robbert Dijkgraaf thinks about it. He has yet to answer the questions. (HOP, BB)
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