{"id":170324,"date":"2024-07-03T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=170324"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:25","slug":"major-budget-cuts-and-fewer-foreign-students-could-lead-to-wave-of-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/07\/03\/major-budget-cuts-and-fewer-foreign-students-could-lead-to-wave-of-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Major budget cuts and fewer foreign students: ‘Could lead to wave of layoffs’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opposition is deeply concerned about the future of higher education, as shown by questions about a bill intended to manage internationalisation. But even the NSC, one of the cabinet parties, has concerns.<\/p>\n

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Some parties felt that the outgoing education minister, Robbert Dijkgraaf, took far too long to send his internationalisation bill to the House of Representatives, but he finally did so just before leaving office. The bill would introduce new rules on language policies and the recruitment of foreign students.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s by no means a done deal. The first round of a written consultation<\/a> shows that the House still has many points of criticism. Addressing these will be up to Dijkgraaf\u2019s successor, Eppo Bruins.<\/p>\n\n\t

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