The Netherlands wants a cap on international students. Bad idea. Denmark did the same a few years ago and paid a heavy price. Now, the Danes make a U-turn. thepienews.com/news/danish-...
A Danish minister has called for more university spaces to be opened up to international students, two years after the country capped numbers.
We told them so. But don't worry the government is busy hamstringing HE in other ways: "In brief, the reform entails that the universities put together must convert 30% of the 2-year master programmes to corporate part-time masters and 1.25-year masters and reduce bachelor enrolment by 8% in 2025."
The government has just made a political framework agreement on the master programme reform. Today, the government has entered into a framework agreement on a master programme reform with the parties ...
Folly: For our universities are filled with vagabonds from all corners of the world, such that our poor native students cannot find rooms to rent. Why some courses are taught not even in our own rich tongue, but in that flavorless lingua franca of commerce and academia: Latin
Denemarken geeft dan alleen ruimte aan studenten die ook al werken bij een bedrijf, dus niet de in Nederland populaire constructie van een bijbaantje en gebruik maken van studiefinanciering.
It says Denmark now want to cap at 2000, but in the Netherlands there are over 120.000 international students this year and the number is still rising. I don’t think the comparison holds here.