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.
A petition by trade union FNV Young & United to pay 18-year-olds the normal minimum wage gets support from student organisations ISO and LSVb. The youth departments of some political parties are also backing the initiative. With the slogan 'youth wage is half wage', the youth union has been campaigning for several months against the
The current board of the National Students' Union (LSVb) would not enter into talks with a PVV Education Minister, if there were to be one. That is what president Elisa Weehuizen says. According to Weehuizen, the LSVb, which stems from local student unions and has an activist streak, should 'remain consistently opposed to racism and
In an employment dispute with the University of Groningen, social safety expert Susanne Täuber has again lost out. She was allowed to be dismissed, the Court of Appeal ruled. Täuber criticised the diversity policy at her own university in an article and eventually lost her job. Her dismissal led to protests, petitions and a fundraising
Several dozen students are filing a lawsuit against student finance provider DUO over rising interest rates on study debts. The service allegedly did not provide enough information. The interest rate on study debts will go to 2.56 percent next year. For years, the interest rate was zero percent and some students thought it would always
All parties except the VVD supported an amendment by Pieter Omtzigt in October to lower the interest rate for students under the loan system, the so-called 'pechstudenten' (unlucky students). He wanted to pay for this by reducing the tax benefit for expats, which should raise 183 million euros. But how do you allocate that money
Members of The Young Academy are sticking the thermometer into Dutch science: how about stress, joy and the social safety of researchers? “Filling in the questionnaire takes 15 minutes at most,” says Joeri Tijdink, psychiatrist and ‘meta-scientist’ at VU University Amsterdam. He hopes thousands of researchers will want to participate in The Academy Thermometer, which…
How do you want to keep a grip on the pros and cons of internationalisation yourselves, outgoing Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf asks universities and universities of applied sciences. They must answer within a month. In a new letter (in Dutch) to the House of Representatives on internationalisation, Dijkgraaf says nothing about the controversy surrounding migration, or the…
