Education Council: ‘Do not cut back on education’ It will probably be some time before a new cabinet is in place, but the Education Council is already writing a letter (in Dutch). ‘Education is too important to shift the focus in education policy or choose a new course with each new cabinet’, it…
PVV scout out over fraud suspicion PVV senator Gom van Strien has resigned from his job as a scout for a new Dutch cabinet. He has been charged with fraud at his former employer, a subsidiary of Utrecht University. Until mid-2009, Van Strien was director of Utrecht Holdings, the knowledge transfer office…
NWO grants increased Due to increased salaries and prices, science funding body NWO has increased the Veni and Vidi grants for top researchers. The change takes effect immediately and therefore already applies to application rounds currently running. Science had been asking for higher research grants for some time. These were less…
With 37 seats, the PVV has emerged from yesterday’s election as the largest party in the Dutch House of Representatives. The newly founded NSC party has won twenty seats.
In het allerlaatste verkiezingsdebat op 21 november ging het alleen even over studenten bij het onderwerp woningbouw. Woningsplitsing zou weer moeten worden toegestaan.
Geert Wilders en Pieter Omtzigt willen aan technische universiteiten weer Nederlandstalige bachelors, bleek maandag tijdens het EenVandaag verkiezingsdebat.
Wel of geen Engelstalige bachelors? Hard bezuinigen of extra geld? De verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer kunnen een aardverschuiving teweegbrengen in onderwijs en onderzoek.
Foreign graduates driven away from The Netherlands International students leave the Netherlands faster after graduation than other countries, a recent survey shows. This is partly because they are given less time to look for a job here. Of the students who came here from outside Europe in 2010, only 12 per…
