{"id":178362,"date":"2025-04-24T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=178362"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:27:06","slug":"bruins-refuses-to-drop-language-review-for-programmes-despite-universities-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/04\/24\/bruins-refuses-to-drop-language-review-for-programmes-despite-universities-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins refuses to drop language review for programmes, despite universities\u2019 offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minister of Education Eppo Bruins  is not yet willing to scrap the language test, a review of foreign-language programmes, which he wants to use to assess whether non-Dutch university programmes are still justified or should be dropped. He said so on Wednesday during the debate in the House of Representatives on the Spring Memorandum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The universities had made scrapping the language test a condition for their offer to reduce the number of international students themselves by discontinuing or modifying certain programmes. That offer included, for example, the discontinuation of the international bachelor\u2019s in Psychology at Erasmus University and a reduction in the number of students in the English-language tracks of Economics and Business Administration. With Bruins\u2019 refusal, that offer is now hanging by a thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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