{"id":121544,"date":"2021-01-13T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=121544"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:19","slug":"student-representatives-call-on-universities-for-leniency-in-bsas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/01\/13\/student-representatives-call-on-universities-for-leniency-in-bsas\/","title":{"rendered":"Student representatives call on universities for leniency in BSAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an open letter, council members of almost all Dutch universities plead to their Executive Boards to have a more flexible binding study advice (BSA) this year. The Erasmus University Council would like to discuss this possibility with the Executive Board.<\/p>\n

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The authors of the letter admit that BSAs have a good side and a bad side. One type of student will, after receiving a BSA, \u201cget off the sofa\u201d and do their best; the other type of student will experience more stress and tension from the looming BSA threshold.<\/p>\n

No matter how you might feel about the BSA, one thing is clear: this is not a normal academic year. In the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic you can\u2019t expect students to perform as if there\u2019s nothing going on, the student reps assert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be looking at the BSA issue this year as if it is a normal year\u201d, they write in their open letter<\/a>. \u201cTo do so is out of touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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