Rianne Letschert: “Damage for UM and region if language plans go ahead”

Politicians in The Hague are burdening Maastricht University with a huge problem if Dutch is to be given a (too) dominant position in (most) bachelor’s programmes. This would jeopardise the role of the university – founded at the time to provide the province with a new impulse and a new future after the closure of the mines – as an economic driving force, says President of the Executive Board, Rianne Letschert.

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