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04/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/15/2025 21:03

Plan for self-regulation of internationalization affects one TU/e program

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Plan for self-regulation of internationalization affects one TU/e program

April 15, 2025

"As universities, we are clearly taking our joint responsibility."

Today, the Dutch universities announced their collective measures to limit the internationalisation and anglicisation of bachelor's education. This is in response to the government's plans, plans that are partly unworkable as far as the universities are concerned. It mainly concerns conversions or adjustments of English-language programs in the field of Psychology, Economics and Business Administration. In principle, bachelor courses in shortage sectors and shrinking regions and border regions are spared.

It has been agreed that the universities of technology, which educate for shortage sectors, will each convert one small English program to Dutch, or stop this program, out of solidarity. The Executive Board will soon enter into internal discussions to see with which program TU/e can best implement this.

Koen Janssen, President of the Executive Board: "As universities, we are clearly taking our joint responsibility, while at the same time taking into account the reality of the strong needs in shrinking regions and shortage sectors. As TU/e, we are of course committed to technology, because the demand for highly educated engineers remains extremely high, especially in the Brainport region. We can therefore agree with this package of measures that leaves room for technology education to grow."

The universities will implement the measures on the condition that the minister scraps the planned Test for Foreign-Language Education (toets anderstalig onderwijs, TAO) on existing courses from the draft law Internationalisation in Balance Act (Wet Internationalisering in Balans, WIB), and offers room to grow in shortage sectors, such as technology. The TAO should only apply to new courses. Otherwise, the test risks intervening far too rigorously in the range of training courses, as a result of which the added value of internationalization for education, science and the labor market would disappear. Moreover, the announcement of the TAO is causing a lot of uncertainty among (future) employees and students, as a result of which the Netherlands is already missing out on international talent that we desperately need.

For more details on the joint package of measures of the universities, see this document.