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The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam has agreed to the demand of the protesting students to take on a student in the university administration. This confirms Dean Frank van Vree of the Faculty of Humanities
The Chairman of the Central Student Council, Tariq Sewbaransingh opposite Folia:.
“It’s still unclear who this will be and how that person will be appointed or elected, but a student member comes in. This is a great victory for the participation. First we will look at how this at other universities – such as Groningen – and is regulated at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science. We will also look at how the student member will be embedded within the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam. “
Small language studies last longer
In addition, the Board of Directors makes commitments at the Faculty of Humanities. The small language studies than by two years existence was intended
Van Vree:.
“The Board recognizes the vulnerability of the training the area of languages and cultures and do therefore, on a proposal from the Faculty Student Council and in consultation with the Faculty Board, the following commitment:
The Executive Board proposes a substantial investment budget available to the department for the purpose of
1. The implementation and execution of the plans for the new programs as expressed in Profile 2016, namely International Studies, Liberal arts, Middle East studies and Russian language and culture.
2.Aanvullende funding that flows into the minor languages courses can still be continued for two years (until September 2018). “
The Faculty of Humanities, the budget of 82 million euros for 2018 structurally 7 million have adjusted. 98 of the 700 full-time jobs will disappear and the plan has some minor languages delete as independent study.
Bussemakerhuis want to talk
Minister Jet Bussemaker (Education) this afternoon talking with the protesting students last night invaded the Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam. She wants to hear their side of the story, said her spokesman earlier opposite ANP.
The students are welcome at her ministry in The Hague. It is a delegation from the New University (DNU). That’s the group that Bungehuis, a building of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) days has kept busy. Representatives of the National Union of Students (LSVB) and the Intercity Student Consultation (ISO) when contacting Bussemakerhuis present.
Appointment was already
The appointment Bussemakerhuis already stood, says president of the student union ASVA, Nuri van den Berg, on the site of Folia, the student newspaper of the University and the University of Amsterdam. “Students and teachers should have more say in university policy,” says Van den Berg. “We do not accept that governments are committed fait accompli where students than ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to say.”
Van den Berg hopes that the Minister understands that this is a “national problem.” The worst that can happen is that according to him, the minister sees this as an Amsterdam problem to solve the UvA itself.
LSVb Student Union supports the students in Maagdenhuis. Meanwhile, no longer speak of an occupation, but a “sit-in”. The door is open to everyone and there may just worked and studied in the administration building.
Requirements
Approximately 1,700 students walked yesterday along with the demonstration march which began at the Bungehuis, the university building that was occupied until Tuesday, and then led to the Maagdenhuis on the Spui. At half past eight students forced the door and then fell into the building. The students are dissatisfied with the current mode of governance of the University of Amsterdam. “Top-down, performance-oriented policy undermines what a university should be about:. Education and Research” The protesters called on teachers to strike today and immediately announced two requirements:
1.The Board of the UvA should resign immediately.
2. The Supervisory Board must call elections within a month for a new board, elected by all students and teachers.
Look here for other requirements.
Occupation Bungehuis
Recently, Bungehuis, a building of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, eleven days occupied. The protesters call themselves The New University (DNU) and are dissatisfied with the austerity plans of the Board. The university last week filed a lawsuit to get the activists from the building. Despite the decision of the court, which ruled that the students had to leave and other 1,000 per day to pay as a penalty, the occupiers remained. Tuesday Bungehuis was cleared.
At the evacuation of 46 people were arrested. They are not prosecuted, provided they the next two years not guilty of an offense. All the arrested students have now been released
Read today in NRC Handelsblad. Criticism UvA leadership swells
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