Experiment with binding study advice after first year

If it is up to the Dutch minister of education, the time of relaxed studying after your first year is over. Universities and colleges are allowed to experiment with binding study advices after the first year.

A binding study advice is an advice that students get after their first year of education. If the advice is negative, students cannot continue their study and have to leave the school. By extending the advice to later years, the minister wants to give the institutions more opportunities to stimulate students also to work hard for their study after their first year.

Colleges and universities that participate in the experiment can decide themselves how to work it out. They can dismiss students, exclude students from certain subjects or shorten the validity of exams. Students in their final year are exempted from the binding advice.

The experiment applies to students who start their education in the year 2013/2014 and 2014/2015.