A recruitment drive has raised enough financial support to keep the website ScienceGuide on air, the editors write on their own website (in Dutch). The national website for news and opinion on higher education is in dire straits and threatened to close or disappear behind a paywall as of 17 February. On its website, the
The House of Representatives voted in favour of a special student quota for international students on 15 February. A majority no longer wants to wait for outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s bill including the same measure.
The current selection procedures for popular courses for students can exacerbate inequality of opportunity. Higher education must do more to prevent this, says outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf. He anticipates that student selection will assume even greater importance in the future.
In September, the basic grant for those living away from home will go down again, the Lower House decided on 15 February. Students will then receive 302 euros per month. That is 164 euro less than now. This academic year, the basic grant returned after eight years. And for students living in a student room,
The House of Representatives needs to encourage companies to invest more in research and development. If not, the Netherlands will fall behind its competitors, warns a Knowledge Coalition representing Dutch business and higher education, including TU Delft.
More Dutch language-taught courses for undergraduates and fewer students coming from abroad? The initial response to universities’ own plans for achieving this goal is positive.
Around one in three first-year students at Dutch universities is from abroad, final figures show. At TU Delft, it is two out of five, though there are slightly fewer of them than before.
The universities will be creating a Dutch track for all major English-taught Bachelor’s programmes. Some programmes are even switching back to Dutch altogether.
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
