{"id":120527,"date":"2020-12-03T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=120527"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:16","slug":"dutch-house-of-representatives-torpedoes-plans-for-diversity-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/12\/03\/dutch-house-of-representatives-torpedoes-plans-for-diversity-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch House of Representatives torpedoes plans for diversity in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"

A majority of the House of Representatives voted against the national action plan<\/a> for more diversity in higher education. Many MPs had reservations about the national action plan drawn up by Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven.<\/p>\n

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The action plan states, among other things, that if higher education is not more diverse within five years, a quota may have to be introduced. This would then be overseen by a national advisory committee. Why should you register the ethnicity and migrant background of students and staff? the VVD (People\u2019s Party for Freedom and Democracy), which voted against the plan. That would be \u2018undesirable\u2019. You have to judge people on their qualities, and not on their ethnic background, the party claimed.<\/p>\n\n\t

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At the presentation of the plan early September. Read on:<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t