Education Minister

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Radboud University Nijmegen seen from Heyendaalseweg
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Minister urges Radboud to press charges over assistant professor’s anti-Israel tweets
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Fossils from the Dubois collection, taken from Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule, will be returned after more than a century in the Netherlands, kept at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden
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Netherlands to return 28,000 colonial-era fossils to Indonesia
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Rainbow gay flag on grey background
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Education Minister apologizes for rainbow crosswalk tweet after swearing in
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Primary school classroom
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Test variations spark debate: are Dutch transition exams fair to all students?
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Eppo Bruins, the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science during his hearing in the Tweede Kamer, 20 June 2024
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Critics slam Bruins’s plan to recruit foreign scientists amid research budget cuts
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A classroom.
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Dutch universities push for more cooperation but face policy and budget challenges
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Professor and students during a lecture.
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Education Minister proposes plan to ease impact of international student cuts
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The Utrecht University library designed by Wiel Arets in 2008
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Utrecht University axes 6 programs, incl. French, German & Arabic; Layoffs possible
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Mariëlle Paul during a debate in the Tweede Kamer on 23 May 2023
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Education Min. looking into plans to make four years old the mandatory age for school
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Student debt
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Student loan interest cannot be frozen in 2024, minister says
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Student apartments in The Hague
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Student rooms 8% more expensive than last year
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Dennis Wiersma
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Officials exposed to harsh behavior by Education Minister Wiersma, even after internal apology
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University lecture hall
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Netherlands moves ahead with plan to stop English instruction in higher education
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Smiling children
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Funding for after-school activities to increase for vulnerable children and youth
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Professor and students during a lecture.
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Erasmus University worried about Cabinet plan to restrict English-only classes
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Children reading a book
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New push to end voluntary parent cash contribution for elementary schools
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Dennis Wiersma
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Education Minister Wiersma must review transgressive behavior during his time at VVD party and ministry