{"id":169510,"date":"2024-06-12T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=169510"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:23","slug":"actions-against-new-government-as-if-theyre-closing-an-entire-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/06\/12\/actions-against-new-government-as-if-theyre-closing-an-entire-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions against new government: ‘As if they\u2019re closing an entire university’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future government intends to reduce higher education, research and student funding by almost one billion euros annually. That equals the budget of one large university, warns the platform WOinActie.<\/p>\n

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Drastic cutbacks are included in the agreement of the four future coalition parties. In total, they amount to almost a billion euros per year. To put this into perspective, in 2022 the revenue of the University of Amsterdam was approximately equal to this amount.<\/p>\n

\u201cCutbacks of this magnitude are essentially the same as closing down one large university, or two or three smaller universities\u201d, says Rens Bod of WOinActie.<\/p>\n

This platform has spent years calling for an increase to the research budget of a billion euros per year. When the previous cabinet took office, it looked like these efforts had been successful. Bod: \u201cWe thought we\u2019d won.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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