Forty thousand less Master students?
The long study fine spread fear among students. One in twelve undergraduate students don’t want to follow a Master program because of the fine. Which makes about forty thousand students in the Netherlands.
Nu.nl reveals this data from a nationwide survey conducted in ten universities and five colleges. A total of 5500 students participated. Eighteen percent of them indicated that the long study fine has a major influence on their study. And six percent would still follow a master program, but choose an easier course than they had in mind, or a program that offers more possibilities for the future.
It also appears that the longitudinal study fine causes much anxiety among students. Forty percent experience a lot of stress due to the fine. Many students suffer from stress symptoms such as sleeping problems, restlessness and nervousness.
Who doesn’t have sleeping problems, however, is Secretary of Education Halbe Zijlstra. “A little stress is not a bad thing, it pushes you to work,” he explains. And about the long study fine: “The long study fine aims at students making more conscious study choice. These students can always decide later whether they want to follow a Masters “.
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