{"id":172106,"date":"2024-10-03T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=172106"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:30","slug":"minister-makes-cutbacks-but-demands-reduced-workload-at-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/10\/03\/minister-makes-cutbacks-but-demands-reduced-workload-at-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister makes cutbacks, but demands reduced workload at universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cutbacks or not, the workload in science must be reduced. That is what Minister Eppo Bruins writes to the House of Representatives. It\u2019s ‘worrying’ that after all these years, universities haven\u2019t turned words into deeds.<\/p>\n

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In his letter<\/a> to the House of Representatives about the gargantuan workload at universities, Minister of Education Eppo Bruins doesn\u2019t beat around the bush. He cuts the budget that universities are meant to use to reduce the workload. That is obviously \u2018painful\u2019, according to Bruins.<\/p>\n

But this doesn\u2019t take away from the duty of the institutions to do something about that workload. What\u2019s more, they should have done so already. In 2020, universities already presented measures to reduce the workload, but not all of those have been introduced, Bruins observes. \u201cI think that universities should hurry up and turn words into deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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