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PON General Meeting ‘The bursary System’

PON General Meeting ‘The bursary System’. The PON Board Sharon Ooms, chairman Marloes Heutmekers, secretary Ekta Lachmandas, treasurer Marieke Born Evelinn Mikkelsen Annemarie Weerman. What is the bursary system?.

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PON General Meeting ‘The bursary System’

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  1. PON General Meeting‘The bursary System’ The PON Board Sharon Ooms, chairman Marloes Heutmekers, secretary Ekta Lachmandas, treasurer Marieke Born Evelinn Mikkelsen Annemarie Weerman

  2. What is the bursary system? • Dutch Universities are lobbying since 1995 for the implementation of the bursary system, to reduce costs and increase the amount of PhDs. • Bursary PhD’s are considered students, and are thus cheaper (€800 netto) • However: No occupational insurance, no maternity leave or WW, no end of the year bonus and no pension.

  3. The bursary experiment • The bursary system has received a negative advice from the ‘Raad van Staten’ in 2012 • However, minister Bussemaker is still planning to start an ‘experiment’ • Each university will get 100 bursary PhD’s in 2014

  4. Why is this a problem? • It will interfere with the quality of research at Dutch Universities • 40% of the scientific output at the Dutch Universities is from PhD candidates • Doing your PhD will be less attractive, talented students will go outside the acadamic world or to other countries. • It will interfere with the quality of education at Dutch Universities • Bursary students are not allowed to teach,. • No social insurance for bursary PhDs • Inequality between bursary PhD’s and PhD candidates

  5. What can we do? • PhD candidates from Leiden made a petition. • Talk with professors who are known to be against the bursary system • Talk with local parties from Nijmegen (PvdA, D66..) • Talk to university media/include in our newsletter Thoughts and opinions??

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