JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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why? what is the benefit of this?
I looked into this as it sounded wrong, and I think there's different information blended into one.

There are Dutch universities with 40% of international intake (that's the same or even less here than the % at King's or Imperial College), but that's not the % across the country, which is not as high as some other European countries (UK is one of the highest).

Also, there are scholarships open to international students, just as there are in other countries, but they are overwhelmingly not fully-funded - Maastricht offers a whole 24 (!) per year for international students, for example. The NL Scholarship referred to is a part-funded one for the first year. Otherwise as an international student you pay the usual 8-20k p/a you would anywhere for a bachelors or masters, with the higher rate for outside of the EEA.
 
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I looked into this as it sounded wrong, and I think there's different information blended into one.

There are Dutch universities with 40% of international intake (that's the same or even less here than the % at King's or Imperial College), but that's not the % across the country, which is not as high as some other European countries (UK is one of the highest).

Also, there are scholarships open to international students, just as there are in other countries, but they are overwhelmingly not fully-funded - Maastricht offers a whole 24 (!) per year for international students, for example. The NL Scholarship referred to is a part-funded one for the first year. Otherwise as an international student you pay the usual 8-20k p/a you would anywhere for a bachelors or masters, with the higher rate for outside of the EEA.
The scholarship related to doing x-amount of work on a monthly base (work meaning having a paid job). So you’re a international student and you work 30 hours per month besides your study; scholarship. Dutch students werent able to receive it, they had to go in debt. The rules are changing but that was the scenario more or less. Do you still have to pay for university while receiving a scholarship? Of course. It is different compared to completely loaning everything though

We call the students of the last 10 years the ‘bad luck generation’. They removed the scholarships to loans, with the promise that it wouldn’t influence their ability to mortgage. That turned out not being true, and from this year that also changes the interest rates on all that debt from 0,46ish to 2,50ish. Many of those people have way more debt compared to previous generation and aren’t particularly lucky on the housing market either

It wouldn’t surprise be if a big part of the demography of Wilders voters are people under their 40s.

About the 40% from CBS:

Steeds meer buitenlandse studenten schrijven zich in bij Nederlandse hogescholen en universiteiten. Ook tijdens de COVID-19 pandemie zette deze stijging door. In studiejaar 2021/’22 kwamen 115 duizend studenten uit het buitenland. Ruim 42 duizend van hen studeerden voor het eerst in Nederland, dat is 1 op de 4 eerstejaarsstudenten. Op de universiteiten komt zelfs 40 procent van de eerstejaars niet uit Nederland. Dit blijkt uit nieuwe cijfers van het CBS.
 

Scottish

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Mar 13, 2011
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Anybody else get depresso at Christmas? We just put up the Christmas decorations at work listening to Christmas music and holy shit do I feel sad for no other particular reason.
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
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Anybody else get depresso at Christmas? We just put up the Christmas decorations at work listening to Christmas music and holy shit do I feel sad for no other particular reason.
nah bro embrace it. it's you chance to meet lots of lonely depressed girls/guys. good time to get sex or meet someone.

also, make it fun at work if allowed. do secret santa but put crazy rules to make it fun (ex: give chocolate themed socks)
 

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