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    Speaker’s Corner

    This week Irina Ailenei and Cesar Lopez Martinez are picking up the microphone in Speaker’s Corner. “Allow the ECTS we get for the Dutch course to count also for our study program”, is the message sent by this Master student of Business Information Systems and PhD student of Systems & Control.

    Why do you want to learn Dutch anyway? Surely everybody here speaks English?
    Irina: “In order to find a job, Dutch is a very important requirement. You cannot go and work in a company and deal with clients in English.” Cesar adds: “Although it may be quite possible to do the work itself in English, socializing takes place in Dutch. During the lunch break I notice that my colleagues will switch to Dutch after a while just because that is easier for them.”

    Is it not unfair to Dutch students if you could let a Dutch course count also for the credits in your study program?
    Irina: “There are Dutch students who fill their extracurricular space with subjects like history and politics. Those subjects do not have any relationship with technology either.”

    What do you propose?

    “That the four ECTS we receive for the first course are incorporated in a standard manner, so that there is a stronger stimulus to learn Dutch. Even now there are students who can count the credits along, but this depends on your supervisor. It should be the same for everybody.” (SK)


    Irina Ailenei and Cesar Lopez Martinez. Photo | Arne Olivier