{"id":196214,"date":"2025-06-19T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/oppositie-wil-nieuwe-onderwijsbezuinigingen-tegenhouden\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:25:49","slug":"oppositie-wil-nieuwe-onderwijsbezuinigingen-tegenhouden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/oppositie-wil-nieuwe-onderwijsbezuinigingen-tegenhouden\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition wants to stop new education cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once again, the House of Representatives wants to reverse several education cuts introduced by the cabinet. This became clear during the debate on the Spring Memorandum, in which the elections cast their shadow ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB initially wanted to make deeper cuts to education and research than they are now doing. They agreed, among other things, to introduce a slow-progress penalty for students taking longer to complete their studies and to reduce the number of international students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they do not have a majority in the Senate. Last December, they therefore reached a compromise on their education budget with the three Christian parties CDA, SGP and ChristenUnie, along with JA21. Some of the proposed cuts were scrapped altogether, while others were softened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These cooperating opposition parties were unpleasantly surprised<\/a> when the Spring Memorandum (in which the cabinet absorbs financial setbacks) once again included new cuts<\/a> amounting to around 400 million euros. This mainly affected primary and secondary education, but vocational education and higher education also had to give up millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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