Minister blames institutions on binding study advice
Training courses must comply with the law. They are not allowed to send second-year students away with binding study advice, Minister Bussemaker confirms in a letter to the House of Representatives.
Universities and colleges are violating the law en masse, the Higher Education News Agency wrote last May. They had run off with the binding study advice. Despite a series of lost lawsuits, they continued to follow their own rules.
The Labor Party asked the Minister verbal questions about this. Many colleges and universities soon changed their rules. Anyone who has not yet done so should still do it, it says in the letter from Minister Bussemaker.
Not suitable
Study programs must give students a study advice at the end of their first year. If the student is apparently unfit for the study program, they may dismiss him. But they can only do this at one time.
Many study programs smuggled this. For example, freshmen were allowed to go to the second year of study if they had obtained more than XNUMX of the XNUMX credits, but then they had to complete the entire propaedeutic phase in their second year. Otherwise they could still leave.
That is not allowed.
Programs may only judge once: unsuitable or not.
They may not attach further conditions to it, even if they supposedly hand out a postponed or conditional BSA. And not even if they give someone the benefit of the doubt because of personal circumstances (such as illness or the death of a family member).
Few credits
Only if a student obtains so few points that a good judgment is not possible (for example after a traffic accident early in the academic year), then a study program may postpone or adjust the BSA. The program may also come up with a solution for part-time students or late entrants.
The minister has brought the matter to the attention of the educational institutions. She emphasizes that the rulings of the education court CBHO are binding. If the CBHO finds that certain rules are against the law, institutions are no longer allowed to use them.
