{"id":91385,"date":"2018-11-01T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=91385"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:08","slug":"lower-house-wants-better-monitoring-of-how-universities-spend-the-funding-they-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/11\/01\/lower-house-wants-better-monitoring-of-how-universities-spend-the-funding-they-receive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower House wants better monitoring of how universities spend the funding they receive"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is being done with the funds allocated to universities and universities of applied sciences? It became obvious on Tuesday that several members of the Dutch Lower House are quite frustrated about the lack of clarity on this score.<\/p>\n

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Many political decisions on higher education are based on \u2018facts that are either not hard or incomplete\u2019, said Judith Tielen, an MP for VVD, during the debate on the budget drawn up by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. \u201cIt makes things difficult and is annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lack of hard facts is complicating the debate. In the run-up to the debate, Paul van Meenen, an MP for D66, had stated that universities were not using the funds they had been allocated and were hanging on to their reserves. The education institutions were unpleasantly surprised to hear the accusation. They weren\u2019t leaving the funds unused at all, they said. Van Meenen also came in for a great deal of criticism from his colleagues in the House.<\/p>\n\n\t

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