{"id":120366,"date":"2020-11-26T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=120366"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:16","slug":"minister-lets-universities-decide-on-binding-study-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/11\/26\/minister-lets-universities-decide-on-binding-study-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister lets universities decide on binding study advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all the fuss, Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven does not plan to ask universities to scrap the binding study advice this academic year, she said in a debate on higher education and the Covid-19 pandemic in the Dutch House of Representatives on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven<\/span><\/p>

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With things so uncertain, universities of applied sciences are choosing not to issue the binding study advice (BSA) \u2013 which determines whether students can re-enrol in a given programme \u2013 and deferring it to next year. Universities are taking a different tack, leaving the decision on whether to issue BSAs to the institutions and departments themselves.<\/p>\n

This has angered many university students. Wednesday morning, eight student unions submitted an urgent letter<\/a>protesting the BSA to their university boards. The online petition already has 4,300 signatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t

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