Professor of Public Administration and Senator Caspar van den Berg will become the new president of the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL). He will lead the association of Dutch universities from June 1. The VVD member will also remain in the Senate, but he will resign from the Committee for Education, Culture and Science.
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.
A long-awaited law might face further delay after Mark Rutte's government collapses in a ‘polarised’ political landscape, while some universities are already capping places for non-Europeans without waiting for the legislation to arrive
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Dutch universities are taking a more critical attitude towards global university ranking systems. The Association of Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) said it will adopt policy advice from an expert group that has conducted research into the subject, who now believe that the manner in which these lists are drawn up is too one-sided.