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Influx of HBO teacher training courses drops sharply

The universities of applied sciences will have nearly 9 percent fewer first-year students this year, preliminary counts show. The influx of higher professional education teacher training programs falls by almost 15 percent. At the universities, the intake remains about the same, thanks to the foreign students.

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New students sometimes drop out: they are late with their forms, do not transfer the tuition fees or cannot find a room and withdraw their registration. The real counting date is October 1.

But the provisional registrations just before the new academic year do give an idea: how busy will it be? At the universities of applied sciences, the influx into bachelor's degree programs appears to be declining by 8,7 percent.

Profit

Economic bachelor programs in particular (11 percent less) and teacher education programs (14,9 percent less) are struggling with this. Healthcare education, such as nursing, is doing relatively well. The decrease is only 2,1 percent. The only higher professional education sector that makes a 'profit' is language & culture (an increase of 4,7 percent).

Influx of students in teacher training courses falls by 14,9 percent in pre-registrations

The two-year HBO programs (associate degrees) are also still growing: according to the pre-registrations, 4,4 percent more students are attending, so that there are probably almost ten thousand ad first-years: a doubling in four years' time.

Universities

At the universities it seems business as usual. There will probably be as many freshmen as last year. At that time, there were more than ever: more than 65 thousand.

The university probably has just as many first-years as last year

The influx of foreign students plays a role in these figures, although the exact numbers are not yet known. More and more foreign students are coming to the Netherlands.

For years, the universities have been asking politicians for more legal options to manage this intake, says Pieter Duisenberg of the VSNU university association in an explanation. “Other countries will send it here.”

Number fixus

A bill is pending in the Senate that will give universities a little more control over the intake. They can then put a numerus fixus on the English-language variant of a study programme, so that they can curb the arrival of international students in certain popular study programmes.

That bill, which should also inhibit the anglicization of higher education, has been put on hold by the senators pending a new cabinet.

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