{"id":98166,"date":"2019-04-26T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=98166"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:18","slug":"hogeschool-rotterdam-suspends-two-students-for-raising-a-false-fire-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/04\/26\/hogeschool-rotterdam-suspends-two-students-for-raising-a-false-fire-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogeschool Rotterdam suspends two students for raising a false fire alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the start of this month, the two students deliberately activated the fire alarm<\/a> in the school\u2019s building at Academieplein, where students were re-sitting an architecture exam at the time. Previously, in March, another re-sit had been declared void, also because of a fire alarm. It is not yet known whether the suspended students were responsible for that false alarm as well.<\/p>\n

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The executive board of the university of applied sciences was so fed up with the false alarms that it decided to suspend the two students for an entire year. According to news site Profielen<\/a>, the students were de-enrolled from their degree programmes and are not allowed to enter the buildings of the university of applied sciences.<\/p>\n

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The Chairman of the Board, Ron Bormans, said he has made a point of \u201ccracking down on this sort of thing\u201d. \u201cStudents are working their arses off to pass their exams, and we won\u2019t let a couple of malicious people ruin it for them,\u201d he was quoted as saying in a press release<\/a>. Bormans said he hoped that the suspension would teach the students a proper lesson and act as a deterrent to any other students who might have evil intentions.<\/p>\n

It was not the first time an exam was interrupted by an alarm at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Last year<\/a> nearly 130 students had to re-sit an exam due to an alarm being raised. In 2017<\/a>, too, 250 students had to pack up and leave half an hour into an exam due to a false fire alarm.<\/p>\n

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Ik ben dit zo spuugzat. Sta meestal niet vooraan als het gaan om het 'eisen' van een stevige straf, maar de eerste de beste die we betrappen, heeft een probleem. En geloof me, we werken er hard aan. https:\/\/t.co\/t6LvAwdHXR<\/a><\/p>— Ron Bormans (@ronbormans1) March 26, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>