On 21th January Thousands of Dutch students and professors demonstrated at The Hague against education spending cuts. The police carried out charges to restore calm after it become very restless around the Education Ministry and Parliament. Earlier around 11.000 protesters peacefully demonstrated against the government spending cuts. In these cuts students who are delayed more than two years have to pay an extra fee of 3.000 per year and also their university or college. According to universities that will lead to 7.000 jobs lost this year. At the demonstration stage Minister Halbe Zijlstra was booed by the students when he addressed the demonstration and told the students; “we are doing this to prevent all of you in the future having to spend a fortune paying off the national debt.I totally agree with the protestors. It is an approach to cut on education to reduce the state’s depts. There are many optional ways to do that. The Netherlands wants to be in the top 5 of the world’s education systems and then they want to cut on education that’s just absurd. I participated in the demonstration too and I have seen what happened at the Education Ministry and Parliament. What the police said is nonsense. Everyone was just standing there and doing nothing wrong. The ME arrived and made the situation very restless. So it wasn’t the students’ fault which is conjured by the police reports and media.
I am not totally against these cuts. Maybe the fees are a little bit to high, but if we want to cut back on budget the dutch goverment has to do something, and it is not like they are really unreasenable. The students are allowed two years delay and that is for most students easy to do, and the money they collect from these fees are invested right back in the education.
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