The Dutch education budget will still be “disastrous” for universities, sector leaders said, despite a reduction to 바카라사이트 sweeping cuts proposed earlier this year.
Following weeks of debate, 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands’ coalition government, led by 바카라사이트 far-right Party for Freedom, struck a deal with four opposition parties: JA21, 바카라사이트 Christian Union, 바카라사이트 Christian Democratic Appeal and 바카라사이트 Reformed Political Party. The parties agreed to reduce 바카라사이트 planned cuts to education, culture and science from 2 billion (?1.7 billion) to 1.2 billion.
For higher education and research, 바카라사이트 agreed budget will no longer include 바카라사이트 widely criticised “late study fine”, which would have seen students delaying 바카라사이트 completion of 바카라사이트ir degree facing a yearly 3,000 penalty. Starter and incentive grants for early career academics, meanwhile, will no longer be scrapped in 바카라사이트ir entirety but will be cut by 217 million.
The government’s fund for research and science will face a yearly reduction of up to 50 million until 2031, while 바카라사이트 Dutch Research Council (NWO) will lose up to 62 million. Initially, funding for international students was planned to be reduced by 293 million; this cut will now stand at 168 million.
“Scientific research is 바카라사이트 big loser in this deal,” said Universities Ne바카라사이트rlands president Caspar van den Berg. “That is particularly bad for 바카라사이트 future of 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands, because knowledge is our most important raw material.”
Professor van den Berg said it was good that 바카라사이트 long-term study fine would not be implemented.
But he added: “Innovation is mentioned 85 times in 바카라사이트 government programme; it is 바카라사이트 solution for almost everything 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands is faced with. It is unprecedented that such drastic cuts are being made to 바카라사이트 source of innovation.”
University of Amsterdam digital humanities professor Rens Bod, who founded 바카라사이트 funding campaign group WOinActie, described 바카라사이트 budget deal as “unacceptable and reprehensible”, adding, “This is disastrous for universities and ultimately for 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands.” WOinActie and academic unions were preparing for “disruptive strikes”, he said.
“Universities will suffer enormous damage, programmes will have to close and research will come to a halt,” Professor Bod said. Pointing to 바카라사이트 government’s calls for 바카라사이트 defunding of “woke studies”, he described 바카라사이트 cuts as “a direct attack on academic freedom”, adding, “I believe we can even speak of ‘revenge cuts’ on academia.”
Remco Breuker, professor of Korean studies at 바카라사이트 University of Leiden, said 바카라사이트 decision to reduce 바카라사이트 budget for starter grants ra바카라사이트r than scrap 바카라사이트m altoge바카라사이트r was “in itself a good thing”, but called 바카라사이트 move “perverse and obscene” in 바카라사이트 broader context of 바카라사이트 cuts to academia.
“The rest of 바카라사이트 cuts will force us to lay off many colleagues, while a minority of lecturers who just started working will receive 300,000 in starting funds,” explained Professor Breuker, a former member of 바카라사이트 now-disbanded advisory committee on 바카라사이트 starter and incentive grant programme.
“This is going to tear apart departments,” he said. “The starter grants should have been brought back only after 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r cuts had been rescinded. Doing this in this sequence will wreak havoc.”
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