New fund for EU students in the Netherlands
Dutch national news, posted October 29th, 2006
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State Secretary for Education Bruno Bruins wants to set up a fund enabling institutes to give their students from other EU countries an allowance. The arrangement is intended as compensation for the so-called ‘Raulin allowance’ that he wants to abolish.
If the Lower House agrees, the fund will be introduced in 2007. The Ministry will make two million euros available, increasing to an annual amount of 5.5 million euros from 2009. To prevent the money from being diluted, the fund will be intended only for universities and ‘hogescholen’ and institutes with at least 1.5% European students.
Read article: Cursor, Technical University Eindhoven, 26 October 2006
