Two Dutch universities are discontinuing their scholarship programmes for Chinese PhD students. They get insufficient funding and there are knowledge security concerns. Other universities should also exercise caution, VVD politicians warn.
The total student debt is another billion euros higher than last year and now stands at €29 billion, data from the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) shows. Debts have risen rapidly since 2015, when the basic grant was abolished. In particular, the debt of young people aged between 25 and 30 has gone up. It is now
Researchers at Wageningen University (WUR) should not have lobbied on behalf of pesticide manufacturers. The university acknowledges that mistakes were made, and that “the appearance of a conflict of interest” arose following reports by the television programme Zembla.
For approving a bachelor's degree program in osteopathy, regulator NVAO received the Meester Kackadoris award Saturday from the Association against Quackery. The NVAO (Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation) monitors the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders. Without approval from the NVAO, the private osteopathy training would not be allowed to award a recognised bachelor's
If all Bachelor’s programmes became Dutch-taught, higher education would shrink by 8.6 percent, researchers from Groningen have calculated. International students and scientists will stay away and this will end up costing the Netherlands a lot of money.
Cutbacks or not, the workload in science must be reduced. That is what Minister Eppo Bruins writes to the House of Representatives. It’s “worrying” that after all these years, universities haven’t turned words into deeds.
Following a great deal of commotion about censorship, Eindhoven University of Technology news platform Cursor now has a new editorial statute. The Executive Board acknowledges the editorial team’s independence. The platform is ‘not a public relations vehicle’.
Students will probably keep paying millions of euros of public transport fines, even though it will be technically possible to automatically cancel expired public transport cards. “It’s crazy that the minister is sticking to this system.”
For years, Job van Ballegoijen de Jong pretended to be a student, caught up in his own lies and not knowing how to stop. Now he has written a book about his experiences. “I want to show others that you can still land on your feet.”
