{"id":163953,"date":"2024-02-07T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163953"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:10","slug":"education-council-back-to-drawing-board-for-internationalisation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/02\/07\/education-council-back-to-drawing-board-for-internationalisation-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Council: \u2018Back to drawing board for internationalisation law\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it\u2019s up to the Dutch Education Council, Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf will take more time to think about his bill, which aims to reassert control over the internationalisation of higher education. This bill is creating too much uncertainty, says chair Edith Hooge.<\/p>\n

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We need to wait for a recommendation by the Education Council, said outgoing Minister Dijkgraaf last January, when critical members of the House of Representatives told him to get a move on with limiting the intake of foreign students.<\/p>\n

For two years now, Dijkgraaf has been working on his bill \u2018Internationalisering in Balans\u2019 (Internationalisation in Equilibrium), a collection of measures intended to protect the Dutch language within higher education and make it possible to curb intake into English-taught tracks of degree programmes. He wanted to hear the vision of the Education Council in this matter.<\/p>\n\n\t

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