{"id":170026,"date":"2024-06-25T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=170026"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:24","slug":"it-will-be-up-to-educational-institutions-to-fine-slow-students-in-the-future-suggests-eppo-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/06\/25\/it-will-be-up-to-educational-institutions-to-fine-slow-students-in-the-future-suggests-eppo-bruins\/","title":{"rendered":"It will be up to educational institutions to fine slow students in the future, suggests Eppo Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the future, it will be up to higher education institutions themselves to decide whether to impose fines on students who are taking too long to complete their studies, prospective minister of Education Eppo Bruins seemed to say during a hearing in parliament. And he didn\u2019t close the door to foreign students just yet.<\/p>\n

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Eppo Bruins<\/span><\/p>

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Hearings with prospective members of the government are a new tradition in the House of Representatives. Eppo Bruins, former MP for ChristenUnie and now the prospective successor to education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf on behalf of NSC, was also questioned on Thursday afternoon. He gave an interesting interpretation of the outline agreement.<\/p>\n

In that agreement<\/a>, PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB stipulate that students are to pay an additional 3.000 euros on top of their regular tuition fees if they take longer than one year extra to finish their degree. In jargon, this is referred to as the nominal duration of the programme plus one year. This means that you can take five years to complete a four-year Bachelor\u2019s programme and two years to complete a one-year Master\u2019s programme. After that, the tuition fees are raised considerably.<\/p>\n\n\t

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