{"id":134361,"date":"2021-12-16T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=134361"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:03","slug":"coalition-agreement-also-big-news-for-erasmus-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/12\/16\/coalition-agreement-also-big-news-for-erasmus-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition agreement also big news for Erasmus University"},"content":{"rendered":"

A basic student grant will be reintroduced, small-scale programmes must remain in place and the binding study advice is about to be revised. Furthermore, the new cabinet is going to invest in unbound research.<\/p>\n

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That is what it says in the new\u00a0coalition agreement<\/a>\u00a0\u2018Looking out for each other; looking forward to the future\u2019, which has just been presented following the longest formation process in the history of Dutch politics.<\/p>\n

Student grant<\/h2>

\u201cWe want everyone to be able to study, regardless of their parents\u2019 income\u201d, write the four parties VVD, D66, CDA and ChristenUnie. \u201cWe are focusing on workability and enforceability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The basic student grant will return in September 2023; that had already been leaked. A supplementary grant will also remain available. Students also retain their student travel card (OV).<\/p>\n

Moreover, the lending conditions remain unchanged. Students are therefore allowed 35 years to repay their loans. Under the old study finance scheme (up to September 2015), this was fifteen years, with higher monthly amounts.<\/p>\n

The investments in higher education, for which the basic student grant had to be cut, will remain. In addition, one billion euros has been set aside to compensate students who missed out on the basic student grant.<\/p>\n

Part of that allowance (250 million euros) will be cut from the National Education Programme in 2023 that is intended to eliminate cognitive and social-emotional disadvantages in education.<\/p>\n

One billion euros is not a large sum for that compensation,\u00a0compared<\/a>\u00a0with the scenarios that the Department for Education, Culture and Science officials had listed (between 1.4 and 11 billion euros). Students without a basic student grant will soon be able to choose between a discount on their student loans or a voucher for extra tuition. Precise amounts per student have not yet been designated.<\/p>\n\n\t

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