{"id":178643,"date":"2025-05-01T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=178643"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:48","slug":"psychology-programmes-write-open-letter-against-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/05\/01\/psychology-programmes-write-open-letter-against-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology programmes write open letter against proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approximately 1,300 scientists and students are protesting in an open letter against the universities’ proposal to make all bachelor’s programmes in psychology in the Randstad Dutch-taught. They deem it unjust and strategically short-sighted.<\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago, the universities announced<\/a> that they wanted to bring the internationalisation of education \u2018in balance\u2019 themselves to prevent the minister from intervening. The minister intends to enforce a language assessment for non-Dutch education that would require English-taught bachelor\u2019s programmes to switch back to Dutch.<\/p>\n

The universities want to negotiate. If the minister removes the strict language assessment from his legislative proposal, the universities are willing to revert their bachelor\u2019s programmes in psychology in the Randstad to Dutch.<\/p>\n

Open letter<\/h2>

Meer over Internationalisering in balans<\/h2>