Zelftestonderwijs.nl offline soon The website where students and employees in MBO and higher education can order free self tests, will go offline as of 20 June. Or even sooner if the self tests run out. It was the intention that the online portal zelftestonderwijs.nl would close already on June 1, but for…
Ruim een kwart van de stagiairs voelt zich als goedkope werknemer gebruikt en bijna de helft krijgt geen vergoeding. ‘Stagemisbruik’ zegt het Interstedelijk Studenten Overleg.
Universities of Applied Sciences: lower tuition fees for Ukrainian students Students from Ukraine why study at Dutch universities of applied sciences will pay the same tuition fees as Dutch students in the coming academic year. The universities had already decided to do so. Normally, students from outside the European Economic Area pay the institutional tuition…
More time to spend ‘corona money’ Minister Dijkgraaf is giving higher education and vocational education (MBO) a year longer to support students and researchers who got stuck during the corona pandemic and suffered delays. The universities of applied sciences and the universities have only spent 6 per cent of the crisis money…
Student Union: ‘Talks with minister now pointless’ The National Student Union LSVb refuses to talk to the Minister of Education about study financing any longer. The union is inviting him to the protest in Amsterdam on Saturday. “We had constructive talks about study financing for years,” says president Ama Boahene, “but the result remains…
Universities need to “clean up their act” when it comes to partnerships with autocratic countries, and will be subjected to an external review, Minister Dijkgraaf announced.
Zo’n vijftig studenten zijn dinsdagmorgen begonnen aan een sit-in op de Roeterseilandcampus van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ze willen aandacht vragen voor de “karige basisbeurs” en de “ontoereikende compensatie” voor de leenstelselgeneratie. Het is nog niet bekend hoelang het protest gaat duren. De sit-in is een gezamenlijke actie van Landelijke Studentenvakbond (LSVb) en FNV…
Four TU Delft professors explain why they signed an open letter in which academics assert that Members of Parliament abuse their position to give researchers a bad name.
Working towards a PhD on a grant instead of a salary? After an experiment, Education Minister Dijkgraaf decided against legal provisions for grant-based student PhD positions.
Caribbean students have higher debts Students from the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands have high study debts and payment arrears. When they study in the Netherlands they receive the same study financing as Dutch students. But afterwards they more often run into financial problems, according to a letter (in Dutch) from…
