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PON General Meeting‘The bursary System’
The PON Board
Sharon Ooms, chairmanMarloes Heutmekers, secretary
Ekta Lachmandas, treasurerMarieke Born
Evelinn MikkelsenAnnemarie Weerman
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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.
The bursary experiment
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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
Why is this a problem?
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1. 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.
2. It will interfere with the quality of education at Dutch Universities Bursary students are not allowed to teach,.
3. No social insurance for bursary PhDs
4. Inequality between bursary PhD’s and PhD candidates