The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences wants more funding for planetary health: interdisciplinary research into the effects of climate change on public health.
Extra millions for safety in higher education A special program to improve social safety in Dutch higher education will be introduced, for which 16 million euros are reserved. Furthermore, laws and regulations will be stricter, announced Education Minister Dijkgraaf in a parliamentary letter (in Dutch) on social safety. Already, a budget had…
No BSN for Caribbean students yet The National Ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen is once again sounding the alarm. Contrary to promises, new Caribbean students still have problems applying for their social security number (BSN), Van Zutphen warned during an interparliamentary consultation of delegations from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. At the…
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…
The majority of students at Dutch universities think their work load is just right, the National Student Survey NSE shows. In Delft, half think the study pressure is too high.
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…
Achttien leden van een Leuvense studentenvereniging krijgen werkstraffen en moeten schadevergoedingen betalen. Ze ontgroenden aspirant-lid Sanda Dia tot de dood erop volgde.
De partijen in de Delftse studentenraad zijn voor het bsa, vertelden zij onlangs aan Delta. De landelijke studentenorganisaties LSVb en ISO denken er anders over.
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…
