Bussemakerhuis budget has hundreds of new teachers – nrc.nl

Minister Jet Bussemaker (R) Education in the Maagdenhuis talks with students from the University of Amsterdam thinking about efficiency and quality of education. Photo ANP / Sander Koning

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In the coming years, the Ministry of Education budget for hundreds of new teachers in higher education. That said Minister Jet Bussemaker this afternoon in the television Buitenhof .

Coming soon from the minister her “strategic agenda” with a four-year plan for higher education and therefore be disclosed exact numbers. Bussemakerhuis:

“There can recover a lot more teachers. I am not talking about tens or hundreds, but then I really about fundamental numbers. “

Broadcast

Bussemakerhuis made the promise in the broadcast during a conversation between Joris Luyendijk and Onno Ruding and herself on the occupation of Maagdenhuis, a University of the University of Amsterdam.

to spend 1 billion

The advent of social feudal system comes time every year about 1 billion extra for free education. The additional teachers are needed because the number of students in recent years has greatly increased

The arrival of the additional teachers according Bussemakerhuis brings three major changes with it:.

• education in the college and universities can be smaller organized
• the contact between students and teachers is intense
• there is “something more idealism in education”

The minister wants to get rid of the “return thinking”, which she refers to the discussion that the university a leather factory is offering as many students as possible by hunting as soon as possible and provide a diploma. Bussemakerhuis:

“I think there has to be at an end. I am in favor of something more bildung, involvement and citizenship in higher education. “

Idealism

Bussemakerhuis recommends that students during their studies more in contact with” the social reality “. She finds it a shame that in this context also walked in universities almost no training. It seems to her a good plan such as commercial economics student internship or future bankers were going to walk to the debt or when judicial officers, in order to “idealism” to give a place in education.

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