In order to compensate the generation of students attending Dutch universities between 2015 and 2018, too, for the loss of their grants, universities promised to allocate considerable amounts from their own resources to projects designed to improve the quality of their degree programmes: the so-called ‘advance spending’.
As part of this research project, EM, in association with the editorial teams of several other university media, tried to figure out how those millions of euros were spent, and to what extent they actually improved the degree programmes taught at Dutch tertiary education institutes.
Altan Erdogan, Henk Strikkers, Laura ter Steege and Yvonne van de Meent contributed to this series. The Dutch Journalism Fund (Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek) helped fund the research.
