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The universities will already be affected by the cutbacks next year, the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for the year 2025 shows. Most of the plans were already known, but now they’ve been concretised with the exact amounts and dates.

The reintroduction of the basic grant has slightly improved the financial situation of students, according to Nibud. As a result, parents are less likely to help pay for their children's studies. The situation of universities of applied sciences, and university students has improved slightly over the past three years. Fewer students have payment plans and
Despite the fact that the Netherlands is already under-investing in research and development (R&D), Education Minister Bruins did not want to conclude in the Lower House on Thursday that the Netherlands will sink even further due to future budget cuts. During Bruins' first debate in the Lower House, in preparation for an upcoming European consultation,
Dutch researchers have won two Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night, the annual awards for scientific research that makes you laugh first and think second. Both prizes went to researchers from the University of Amsterdam. For the first prize-winning experiment, scientists tossed a coin 350,757 times: did it turn heads or tails? In almost 51