Netherlands

The lack of suitable jobs, the high cost of living and the crowded housing market are the main reasons international students choose to leave the Netherlands after completing their studies.

PVV, a right-wing populist political party, has become the biggest winner in the Dutch national elections. What does that mean for the sector?

The result of the Dutch election has seen stakeholders voice fears that access to Dutch education will be “limited” for foreign students.

Rollercoaster would be a tame word to describe the events in the world of Dutch international education over the last two years. The PIE talks to stakeholders amid the November election. 

Institutions and governments must work harder to combat the waves against internationalisation, including complacency, lack of guidance and local barriers, European education ministers said at EAIE.

Three in ten international students stay in the Netherlands to work after graduating, new data shows.

Debate on government proposals to reduce the numbers of international students in the Netherlands by cutting back English-taught programs is continuing as a public consultation has launched.

Much of what is being reported and communicated by Dutch media and government is a misrepresentation of what is actually happening with internationalisation of education in the Netherlands

The collapse of the Dutch government could spell trouble for recent internationalisation reform talks, as stakeholders brace for “more stringent nationalistic rules”. 

The Dutch education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s plans for internationalisation of higher education in the Netherlands were fiercely debated, with some even calling for complete cessation of international scholarship funding.

Dutch will gradually become the main language in educational institutions in the Netherlands - and international students will have to learn too, the education minister has suggested. 

One of the directors at a Dutch university has called the “cease and desist order” given to the country’s institutions on international student recruitment “a wake-up call”.

The Netherlands lags behind much of Europe when it comes to long-term outward mobility, with 3% of students abroad for the entirety of their course.

Stakeholders in the Netherlands are awaiting elaboration from the government on legislation plans to limit the number of international students Dutch universities can take on.

The Dutch education minister has written to the boards of all public research and applied sciences universities in the Netherlands, urgently requesting them to stop actively recruiting international students.