FEBlog Elmer Sterken: "More pressure on students probably unproductive"
In the public opinion universities are ‘employers of shirking staff ‘ and ‘host of lazy students’. So politicians reduce public spending. In my opinion the public opinion needs to change. And throwing universities and their students in another pressure-cooker probably is unproductive.
Read the entire blog of Elmer Sterken at www.rug.nl/feb/feblog
| Last modified: | 25 October 2019 11.13 a.m. |
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