If the number of non-European students decreases by 10 percent, universities will face an additional deficit of 37 million euros. So says accountancy firm PwC in a report on the financial position of universities. The firm sounded the alarm last week: with falling numbers of national students, they will get less money anyway. Now that
For the fourth consecutive year, university enrollment has declined. This is shown by the final counts. Universities in Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen in particular are seeing losses, while technical universities and Rotterdam are recording growth. In September, nearly 58,500 students started a university bachelor's degree, one percent less than last year. This is mainly because
A majority of the House of Representatives wants all Dutch higher education institutions to develop plans to improve academic freedom. KNAW expert André Nollkaemper is open to the idea. “The basic principle should be that staff and students treat each other with respect, but there’s nothing wrong with a heated discussion.”
Defence minister Ruben Brekelmans was escorted offstage at the University of Amsterdam Thursday for ‘security reasons’, as protesters disrupted his appearance by banging on windows and allegedly assaulting campus security. The university says it will report the incident to the police. As a guest on Room for Discussion, UvA’s debate programme, Brekelmans (VVD) was supposed
Universities are given an additional task: to register thousands of prospective students and employees for a security check every year. Universities and MPs wonder whether that will work.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of former part-time students of Erasmus University Rotterdam in a lawsuit over excessive tuition fees. They paid around EUR 34,000 for their two-year Master’s in Business Administration, even though their programme was Government funded. Officially, the university was only allowed to charge the statutory tuition fee. This issue
More work placements, a permanent group of ‘military lecturers’ and more money for research. Defence embraces the advice to make more frequent use of knowledge within higher education institutions. This does require these institutions to improve their knowledge security.
The number of international students in the Netherlands hardly needs to decrease to meet the planned budget cuts, Education Minister Eppo Bruins confirmed to the Senate. If the current number of students remains the same, the savings in higher education are likely to be met. Originally, the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB coalition parties wanted
Few young people in the Netherlands are sitting around doing nothing. Figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) show that 77 percent of young people aged 15 to 24 have a job. This percentage is significantly higher than in other EU countries. By comparison, in Denmark, the number two country, 57 percent of young
