{"id":136040,"date":"2022-02-14T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=136040"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:07","slug":"no-curbs-yet-on-intake-of-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/14\/no-curbs-yet-on-intake-of-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"No curbs yet on intake of international students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The growing number of international students at Dutch educational institutions cannot be slowed down in the next academic year. Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf announced this on Wednesday in a debate about internationalisation and knowledge security.<\/p>\n

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Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science<\/span><\/p>

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This academic year, Dutch universities welcomed<\/a> almost eighty thousand international students, an increase of 14 percent compared to last year. For a long time, the universities have wanted<\/a> the means of controlling the intake, thereby safeguarding the quality of the education they provide.<\/p>\n

They have waited<\/a> two years for the Language & Accessibility bill to be passed by the Senate, but it was declared controversial after the fall of the previous government.<\/p>\n\n\t

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