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  ISO: Two-thirds of students with special needs experience problems     Many students with a disability or ‘special circumstances’ experience study problems, as it turned out last year. The Intercity Student Consultation commissioned the Nijmegen agency ResearchNed to conduct further research into their obstacles.   Nearly 1,500 students with a ‘support need’ from HBO…

DUO adjusts student finance application     “There were students who were entitled to a supplementary grant, did not take it and eventually took out a loan,” minister Robbert Dijkgraaf told the Senate. “That is totally inexplicable, other than the fact that they were not informed in the right way.”   The supplementary grant (soon…

  Education minister wants to cancel student debts more often     Sometimes it is clear that a former student will never be able to pay off his student debts. DUO should be able to cancel the debt in these cases, writes Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf (Education) to the Dutch Senate and Parliament.    High debts,…

WUR professor stripped of chair       Wageningen University has stripped professor Vincenzo Fogliano of his chair for two years. The man acquired research funds by linking himself to a Saudi university on paper.   Fogliano works full-time at Wageningen, but has changed his primary affiliation. That is, the much-quoted scientist pretended that King…