The House of Representatives wants higher professional education students to always receive a basic grant for their master’s degree, and according to outgoing minister Gouke Moes, the government should intervene in the range of education programmes on offer, as revealed in this week’s debate on the education budget.
The student council of VU University Amsterdam is in crisis due to the conflict surrounding the Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij (VSP). According to reports in newspaper Het Parool, VSP founder Marlon U. has been aggressive and intimidating on campus for years. Among other things, he knocked a student to the ground after the student confronted Marlon U.
A group of employees at the student sports centre at TU Eindhoven have been underpaid for years. The university is going to rectify this and is allocating 750,000 euro for this purpose. Around fifteen permanent employees and ninety on-call workers at the Eindhoven student sports centre have been underpaid for years. This was revealed by
The intake of first-year university bachelor’s students has declined again. Both international and Dutch students are staying away. Only in Leiden and Delft have the numbers increased.
Dutch students continued to live with their parents for longer after the basic grant was abolished. After five years of study, 33 percent still lived at home, and with the introduction of the loan system, that figure rose to 42 percent. The abolition of the system has not improved the situation so far.
The promise made by the new coalition parties to cap interest rates on student loans at 2.5 percent feels like a financial stranglehold in practice, says the National Chamber of Associations.
The new coalition has divided up the ministerial posts. As expected, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science will go to D66. The Undersecretary will remain a member of the VVD. D66 leader Rob Jetten will become Prime Minister and VVD member Eelco Heinen is the intended Minister of Finance. State Secretary Sandra Palmen (formerly
How do students use ChatGPT when writing their thesis? That question has received remarkably little attention during the assessment of study programs, according to the education assessor itself.
Study programmes are disappearing, lecturers are being laid off and small study groups are turning into massive lectures. This is due to cuts in education funding, says the Dutch National Union of Students (LSVb) in a ‘black book’ presented to the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday. The new minority coalition of D66, CDA, and VVD has
