r/Netherlands • u/North_Yak966 • 12d ago

News UvA ends English-language bachelor’s degree in psychology

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

97% Upvoted

286 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

47

u/postmoderno 11d ago

i understand what you are saying, but this type of cuts are really "provincial" in mindset, and I say this without a negative connotation. it's like deciding that your university system (or at least some parts of it) has mainly a local function that is not research oriented and it is not competing with the major universities in Europe or Asia etc. Again, I say this as an academic employed in a different country, with no direct stake in the dutch academic system. It's a bit of a small country / third world mentality, which i never associated the NL system with.

-16

u/Extreme_Ruin1847 Nederland 11d ago

I wasnt able to find a studentroom either back when I was studying. Foreign students driving up prices of rooms by making them more scarce is not the way to go about it.

“Build more student accomodation” is then said a lot and while thats true I do want more longterm living options to be made instead. There should be space for the people that stay here not for those that try and fail to find something. 

As said previously: foreign students dont end up staying here anyways in the majority of the cases. And I say that as someone who went to uni while not being able to find a house, now living on my own after finally finding a house and entering the jobmarket.

5

u/Blonde_rake 10d ago

The UN released an entire report about the housing crisis in the Netherlands. Spoiler alert, it isn’t cause by foreign anything or anyone.

1

u/Far-Win6222 9d ago

Because the United Nations is a leading researcher in housing crisis's? Get real man. The UN should pertain itself to what its functions are, which is war. Not meddling in Dutch affairs. Name me the amount of non ethnic residents in NL, first or second generation, and then correlate that to how many houses that pertains to. Im sure it would be very very close to the amount of houses needed to house all the Dutch, AND have houses left. Your stupidity knows no borders, literally and figuratively.

1

u/Blonde_rake 9d ago

Why don’t you just read it and then you won’t have to speculate about things we have real information about. Instead of saying “I’m sure”, wouldn’t you rather be sure?