Ministry of Education Culture and Science

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Backpacks hanging on the backs of chairs in a primary school classroom
Business
Islamic school in Amsterdam is being mismanaged: Education Inspectorate
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Researcher in a laboratory
PoliticsTechScience
Netherlands recruited 29 top scientist leaving U.S. under Trump
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Child at a funeral
Health
Schools need to pay more attention to grief and loss, experts say
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Bored students in a lecture hall
PoliticsBusiness
Graduates dodging study debts by disappearing abroad; Dutch state lost €170 mil. so far
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Kids play basketball at school.
HealthPoliticsCultureLifestyleSports
Ministry blocks mandatory daily movement in schools, sparking lawsuit threat
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Crowds during Pride Amsterdam 2015
CultureLifestyle
Pride Amsterdam nominated for UNESCO Intangible Heritage List
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Flowers laid at stumbling stones memorializing Jewish people who were deported and killed during World War II
CultureArt
Dutch gov't advised to put Nazi-looted art on exhibit under Jewish community control
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Student housing flats by the Amsterdam Science Park
CrimePolitics
Students to get up to €2,000 compensation for education agency DUO's discrimination
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The Leeuwenburg building of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Business
Dutch gov't working on doctoral degree options for Universities of Applied Sciences
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Hands painted in the rainbow colors of the Pride flag, forming a heart
CultureLifestyle
Many Dutch school children think people with other sexual orientations are lesser
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Amsterdam Pride.
CultureLifestyle
Pride Amsterdam, travelers' culture amog 5 nominated for UNESCO's living heritage list
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Students on the first day of the academic year at the University of Amsterdam’s Science Park campus, 4 September 2023
Business
Amsterdam Univ. actively recruiting international students, despite agreements not to
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Parliamentary leaders Rob Jetten (D66), Henri Bontenbal (CDA), and Dilan Yesilgoz (VVD) presenting their coalition agreement at Nieuwspoort.
Politics
Rianne Letschert to be Education Minister for D66; CDA's Bart van Brink taking on Asylum
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A sculpted head believed to depict a high-ranking official from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III from the 15th century BCE, seized by Dutch police at TEFAF in Maastricht in 2022.
CrimePoliticsCultureArt
Ancient 3,500-year-old statue stolen from Luxor during Arab Spring returned to Egypt
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Child using a laptop
Business
Kids who failed exams during Covid at-home learning struggling more in higher education
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Boys and girls enter a classroom and are greeted by their teacher.
PoliticsBusinessCultureLifestyle
Girls outperform boys on tests but receive lower secondary school advice, study finds
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Researcher in a laboratory
TechScienceInnovation
Dutch gov't pushes €197 mil. into 11 research facilities vital for "scientific position"
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Scientists at work
BusinessTechScience
Majority of scientists remain in or come back to Netherlands after time abroad
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Backpacks hanging on the backs of chairs in a primary school classroom
Politics
Reformed Christian, Islamic schools' lessons contrary to values like equality, tolerance
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TV and TV remote
BusinessCultureEntertainment
Dutch public broadcaster NPO plans major channel closures, 80 job cuts
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Children reading a book
Business
Dutch government continues reading program after promising experiment
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At a museum
BusinessCultureArt
Nederlands Fotomuseum director fired after investigation finds withheld information
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Healthcare workers
Crime
Three arrested for selling hundreds of fake healthcare certificates
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At a museum
BusinessCultureArt
Director of Rotterdam’s Nederlands Fotomuseum suspended amid leadership investigation