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University heads warn new minister over budget cuts

Image: Remco van de Pol [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Plans of newly installed government risk undermining Netherlands’ knowledge sector, board chairs say

University leaders have written to the Netherlands’ new education and science minister setting out concerns about the newly installed government’s plans to cut funding for the academic sector.

The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) association of executive board chairs wrote to Eppo Bruins (pictured) on 2 July, saying they are “extremely concerned” about the intentions he endorsed in the government’s outline agreement for its term of office.

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