What the collapse of the Dutch governement means for students heading to the Netherlands

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The coalition tried for months to hash out a deal to reduce the flow of new migrants arriving in the country of nearly 18 million people. Proposals reportedly included creating two classes of asylum — a temporary one for people fleeing conflicts and a permanent one for people trying to escape persecution — and reducing the number of family members who are allowed to join asylum-seekers in the Netherlands. Though the main point of contention has been about asylum seekers, the country's stance on curbing immigration, including the proposed internationalisation reforms, has put a question mark on the thousands of students planning to study in the Netherlands.

The collapse of the government could spell trouble for its recent internationalisation reform talks, as stakeholders brace for “more stringent nationalistic rules”. Earlier in the year, Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf put forward new legislation to channel the influx of international students.

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The minister shared plans for ‘a form of central control’ so that the entire education system can be examined with social interests in mind. If the system is at risk of being jeopardised, Minister Dijkgraaf wants to have the power to ‘take action’, according to the press release. But it is not yet known what that control will entail. The exact form it will take ‘will be worked out in greater detail in the time ahead’.

The Minister also wants to curb the number of international students the country accepts for higher education by introducing fixed quotas. Study programmes will soon be free to restrict the influx in specific tracks of the programme- like the