{"id":135952,"date":"2022-02-10T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=135952"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:07","slug":"erasmus-the-student-grant-and-the-value-of-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/10\/erasmus-the-student-grant-and-the-value-of-studying\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus, the student grant and the value of studying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The grant was abolished in 2015 but is set to return sometime soon. It\u2019s not often that such a radical system change is reversed so quickly, and it\u2019s good to see students taking action to demand decent compensation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>

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The debate about student funding is also special for other reasons and reveals a new political contradiction. At the time, the introduction of the student loan system was supported by political parties on the right (VVD, D66) and on the left (GroenLinks,\u00a0<\/span>PvdA). Similarly, there was also opposition to the system from the right (CDA, ChristenUnie) and the left (SP, PvdD). For many political followers, this revealed another distinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t

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