The Education Inspectorate has doubts about the diplomas of a master's programme in Twente: were they rightly granted? The part-time master's programme 'public management' at the University of Twente is already warning its students and graduates: invalid master's degrees might have been issued. The Education Inspectorate will soon issue a report. Some 60 graduates and
If it’s up to the Dutch Education Council, outgoing Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf will take more time to think about his bill, which aims to reassert control over the internationalisation. This bill is creating too much uncertainty, says Chair Edith Hooge.
Outgoing minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is keen to encourage young people to opt for a programme in higher vocational education, and it seems the campaign is paying off. Last September, almost 8,900 vwo students started in higher vocational education: 7.9 per cent more than last year. But when compared to senior general secondary education students (havo,
Are the technical sciences indeed completely dominated by China? Those who do not trust the new Leiden Ranking can now check it themselves. For 15 years, research centre CWTS has been making its own world ranking of universities: the Leiden Ranking. In it, you can choose certain criteria yourself and thus create your own variants.
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences has postponed a series of lectures on the Holocaust. This news from daily newspaper De Telegraaf led to a storm of messages and reactions this weekend. The Utrecht teacher training college organised the lectures together with CIDI (Centre for Information and Documentation Israel). They were supposed to take place in
Because of a crisis in the housing market and pressure on healthcare, fewer foreign students will be allowed to come to Canada. The measure will last for two years, the government has announced. The Canadian government stresses international students are an enrichment and fit into the social, cultural and economic fabric of the country. But
Sexually transgressive behaviour is more common than higher education institutions realise, warns government commissioner Mariëtte Hamer, who is calling for sex education for first-year students. According to Hamer, “That’s when they start experimenting.”
The Dutch news website ScienceGuide is in serious financial trouble. The website will shut down on 17 February unless 2.500 readers are willing to take out a subscription at 85 euros per year. This is what the 26-year-old platform for news and opinion on higher education and research writes on its own website. There would
A motion (in Dutch) by the Dutch political parties NSC, VVD and BBB passed Tuesday afternoon urging the Cabinet to rapidly reduce the number of English-language courses in higher education. Within eight weeks, all Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences must let the Minister of Education know how they will ‘firmly’ reduce the number of
Former medical student Fouad L., who killed three people in Rotterdam, will be admitted to the Pieter Baan Centre next month for psychological testing. This emerged on Monday during the first hearing of his trial.
