{"id":161193,"date":"2023-11-15T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=161193"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:03","slug":"inspectorate-surprised-by-uvas-cap-on-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/11\/15\/inspectorate-surprised-by-uvas-cap-on-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspectorate surprised by UvA\u2019s cap on international students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has become the first Dutch university to limit the number of international students admitted to a degree programme. Although this goes against current legislation, the education inspectorate did not intervene: it assumed UvA would not proceed with the plan.<\/p>\n

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For years, the UvA has admitted large numbers of international students but now says<\/a> it can no longer cope with the influx. This led the university to take action in anticipation of a new law designed to give the higher education sector greater powers to restrict international student numbers. The UvA\u2019s executive board introduced a quota for the English-taught track of its Bachelor\u2019s programme in psychology. The aim was to increase the proportion of Dutch students taking the programme.<\/p>\n

As reported<\/a> in Het Parool<\/em>, the measure proved effective: the proportion of Dutch speakers among first-year psychology students rose from 29 to 53 percent. President of the executive board Geert ten Dam is positive about the measure. \u201cWe have been asking for this for a long time\u201d, she tells the paper, \u201cand the results show that as universities we can use this measure to regulate our intake if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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