Universities expect more students to sign up, call for better funding
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Dutch universities expect more students will sign up for a bachelor’s degree in the coming academic year, and that includes an increase in international students, the university association VNSU said on Friday.
‘Our initial prognoses suggest the number of students registering for university will rise by 5%,’ VNSU chairman Pieter Duisenberg said. Last year student numbers rose nearly 13% and this year’s rise will only increase the financial pressure on universities, he said.
The next government, he said, ‘will have to ensure a structural increase in our basic financing.’