Meno studenti internazionali costeranno all’economia olandese 5 miliardi di euro, dicono le università

>… according to a study commissioned by Leiden University, Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

That must be an incredibly unbiased and well-balanced study right there.

It’s pure xenophobia.

Biased. They have an interest in getting more money, so international students are better for their numbers. And American students would be their wet dream.

Instead, downsize, and focus on native students. Drive costs down, scale down and accept only a small small number of foreigners.

Let Europe stop immigration, see how they are in 20 years time. I don’t want tears from Europeans that their countries are still in bad shape even though they stopped immigrants coming in. Let them learn.

“According to the higher education institutions, international students are indispensable in the region and in the Randstad. They help alleviate staff shortages in sectors with high demand for highly educated professionals.”

If there is shortage of educated professionals, you import educated professionals, not uneducated nonprofessionals

”this means less available labor for companies and therefore a loss of revenue and potential tax revenue”
Their point is that a bigger pool of workers is good for economy because it keeps salaries down. I think it is bad and Dutch engineers and other higher educated should be most for this change since it is their salaries that will not have as good development if this continues.

Here is the thing, if universities in Europe, are not sustainable been funded by the highly quality graduate jobs they create and economic growth they supposedly create. The European university sector needs to be smaller.