{"id":169437,"date":"2024-06-12T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=169437"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:23","slug":"even-vvd-and-nsc-youth-wings-speak-out-against-slow-progress-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/06\/12\/even-vvd-and-nsc-youth-wings-speak-out-against-slow-progress-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Even VVD and NSC youth wings speak out against slow-progress penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students, trade unions and youth wings of political parties, including VVD and NSC, are very worried about the comeback of the slow-progress penalty. They\u2019ve written an urgent letter and are announcing protests.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe slow-progress penalty is a severe blow for students\u201d, reads an urgent letter<\/a> to the new coalition parties PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB. The signatories are asking these parties to reconsider their plan.<\/p>\n

The future government parties want to more than double the tuition fees for students with study delays. Whoever takes longer than one year extra to finish their Bachelor\u2019s or Master\u2019s degree will pay three thousand euros extra.<\/p>\n

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This is bad for students in all sorts of ways, the signatories of the letter feel. Young people are already struggling with a range of mental problems, and this penalty will put even more pressure on them. Voluntary work, student participation, elite sports, administrative work\u2026 all of this will be jeopardised. What\u2019s more, subsequent education will become less accessible for students who aren\u2019t well off.<\/p>\n

The letter was drafted by the three national student interest groups (JOBmbo, ISO and LSVb), together with umbrella organisation for student associations LKvV. Two other signatories are the main eyecatchers, however.<\/p>\n\n\t

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