Are the concerns justified? The new coalition of PVV, BBB, NSC and VVD announced in May that they wanted to cut more than 1 billion euros in academic education. Cabinet Schoof I has the task of implementing this in the coming academic year. Anton Pijpers, chairman of the Executive Board of Utrecht University, calls it an attack on education. “A cut of a billion, while we are already short a billion. That is very painful.”
Academic year starts with demonstration: ‘Will we still get good education with so many cutbacks?’
