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<div class="gmail-grid-8 gmail-alpha"><div class="gmail-grid-6 gmail-alpha"><article class="gmail-lead-story gmail-news"><div><div class="gmail-wrapper-details"><p>To add to the attraction, many local universities are much cheaper than their British or US-based counterparts.</p><div id="gmail-ad_GN_News_In_Article" class="gmail-in-article gmail-advert gmail-mod" style="clear:both"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/1019334/GN_News_In_Article_0__container__" style="border:0pt none;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"></div></div><p>English usage is particularly dominant at Master’s degree level.</p><p>Some
“65 per cent of bachelor’s degrees are in Dutch while 15 per cent of
master’s degrees are in Dutch,” education ministry spokesperson Michiel
Hendrikx told AFP.</p><p>That some 85 per cent of all master’s degrees
are presented in English riles the largest teachers’ association, whose
acronym BON stands for ‘Better Education Netherlands’ in Dutch.</p><p>“The
Dutch language is gradually disappearing from campuses,” lamented BON’s
chairman Ad Verbrugge, stressing the “seriousness” of an “unprecedented
situation in Europe.”</p><p>Pressed by heated debate from campus to
parliament, the Dutch education ministry will soon publish a letter
“with the minister’s position on the subject,” Hendrikx said.</p><p>This
follows a report in February by the Royal Dutch Academy for Arts and
Sciences (KNAW), which blasted the Netherlands for “failing to properly
protect and uphold the quality of Dutch as a language and
over-estimating the importance of English”.</p><p>“Universities are
forced to offer courses in English to remain in the race” for
international students in Europe, said Verbrugge, a philosophy professor
at the University of Amsterdam.</p><p>“We are witnessing a ‘languicide’,” he told AFP.</p><p>“We always advocate diversity but here we’re killing a minority language.”</p><p>“We must preserve all European languages and cultures ... Dutch students no longer master their native tongue,” he added.</p><p>Verbrugge
and BON have now launched a lawsuit against two Dutch universities they
accuse of killing the Dutch language through the ‘Anglicisation’ of
courses.</p><p>The eastern Twente University and the southern University
of Maastricht offer two master’s degree courses in psychology
exclusively in English.</p><p>BON called it an “impoverishment of the teaching quality and a dangerous abandonment in the learning of the Dutch language.”</p><p>“We
must call the universities to order because they’re violating the law,”
which states that all lesson and exams must be in Dutch, the union
said.</p><p>An exemption can only be made when the subject matter was
directly related to a different language such as English, for instance
in international business management studies.</p><p>BON says the effects of such a language policy can even be seen in the labour market.</p><p>Young
expatriates graduating in English at Dutch universities are often
tempted to remain in the Netherlands, which has a flourishing economy
and pleasant living environment, thus taking jobs from local graduates,
it said.</p><p>Verbrugge said BON was unsure whether the lawsuits would be successful “but at least we’ve raised the issue for discussion.”</p><p>Many
Dutch students agree, saying they did not understand the value of
“pretending to be English in front of a lecturer who is just as equally
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