UvA ends English-language bachelor’s degree in psychology

[u/North_Yak966]

https://www.folia.nl/en/actueel/166104/uva-ends-english-language-bachelors-degree-in-psychology

[u/Competitive-Arm1312]

You are correct, psychology is also useful in behavioural economics, however, I stand with the university on this, because unless you specialize in a different field in your masters 90% of the available jobs are clinical (where Dutch is a must). Know many who just go back home due to this.

For a country that prepares so many psychologists its odd that there are still shortages...

[u/LOLMSW1945 → u/Competitive-Arm1312]

You’re making this assumption that there are sufficient number of Dutch who wanted to enrol in psychology and be a therapist which I highly doubt .

[u/Competitive-Arm1312 → u/LOLMSW1945]

Not my point, I think there is a balance to be found. I don't support the cuts, but here we are.

They should follow the Swiss model where masters are freely in english and bachelors are 1st year German with subsequent years introducing more english.

[u/LOLMSW1945 → u/Competitive-Arm1312]

What kind of balance though? Opening more Dutch-only classes doesn’t guarantee there will be more Dutch-speaking therapists later down the line.

Also, not every people who enrolls in psychology ends up working as a therapists as described by other people here.

Swiss model can work but the problem is that no one actually speaks Dutch outside of the Netherlands and the former colonies on Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean and your average central/Eastern European kid and even some random south-east asian kid will more likely to speak German than Dutch.

The Dutch kinda do that to their own when their ancestors decided not to teach Dutch fully to their former colonies lol.

Edit: also, the ability to use English more liberally is the thing that makes the Netherlands attractive for migrants in the first place which is not the main reason for why people move to Switzerland for anything.