Students in Utrecht and Rotterdam continued their protests about proposals to reform student funding on Tuesday by taking over university administration buildings.

On Monday, hundreds of students in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Nijmegen took part in the protests. They are angry that the national university council VSNU has refused to condemn a suggestion that the basic grant for all students be scrapped.
‘We have not voted in favour of anything,’ a VSNU spokesman told the NRC. ‘All we have said is that we are not negative about the idea of replacing the basic grant with a loan system.’
At the moment, all Dutch university and hbo college students get a basic grant of either €93 if they live at home, or €260 if they live away. They can then borrow several hundred euros more, which needs to be paid back over 15 years.
The review of student funding is one of a range of options being looked at by ministers as part of effort to save €35bn and get government finances back under control.