{"id":95985,"date":"2019-03-12T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T09:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=95985"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:29:57","slug":"the-underlying-problem-is-that-education-is-underappreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/03\/12\/the-underlying-problem-is-that-education-is-underappreciated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The underlying problem is that education is underappreciated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

WOinActie will be campaigning this week. The university protest movement that calls for more money for universities and a halt to austerity in education will hold a national education strike on Friday. Then employees, students and students from all education sectors will demonstrate at the Malieveld in The Hague. What is happening in Rotterdam?<\/p>\n

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EUROPA, the local union consultation for Erasmus University, has organized a lunch meeting at noon on working hours in the hall of the Sanders building. Law sociologist Roel Pieterman, President of EUROPA: \u201cWorking pressure is of course closely related to the requirements of WOinActie. More money or fewer tasks, as we advocate with WOinActie, is undoubtedly a solution for part of the work pressure problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot is being done to tackle work pressure at Erasmus University\u201d, says Pieterman, who, in addition to EUROPA, is also chairman of the national Academic Union (VAWO). \u201cThere is a detailed plan produced by the Executive Board, but not everyone knows about it or is aware of the details.\u201d During the lunch meeting, he hopes to focus on a discussion between EUR employees about work pressure. \u201cI would like to know what they see as the problems and solutions and what they could do about it themselves, because work pressure is a problem for the entire organization. You cannot only let others solve that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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