{"id":164090,"date":"2024-02-13T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=164090"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:10","slug":"positive-response-to-universities-foreign-student-plans-a-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/02\/13\/positive-response-to-universities-foreign-student-plans-a-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive response to universities\u2019 foreign student plans: ‘A turnaround’"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Dutch language-taught courses for undergraduates and fewer students coming from abroad? The initial response to universities\u2019 own plans for achieving this goal is positive.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, the universities\u2019 representative body UNL presented a series of measures<\/a> designed to reduce the number of foreign students. The key measure is that all \u2018large-scale\u2019 Bachelor\u2019s programmes will have a Dutch-language variant, allowing universities to limit the student intake for the English-taught equivalent.<\/p>\n

Rosanne Hertzberger, higher education spokesperson for NSC in the House of Representatives, welcomes the proposals. \u201cThis is my preferred option\u201d, she says, pleased that the universities have launched their own initiative to limit foreign intake and roll back the influence of English. She believes the universities are best placed to oversee the consequences of their actions for the sector.<\/p>\n

Along with VVD and BBB, NSC had been calling for the rapid introduction of plans to reduce the number of programmes taught in English. The party accused universities of allowing internationalisation to spiral out of control and treating international students as a revenue model. That said, Hertzberger still has faith in the universities\u2019 ability to correct matters. \u201cI think it\u2019s very important that they are now taking their own steps. This is a real turnaround.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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