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    Speaker’s Corner - student protest

    I have been hearing about the proposed protest against the apparent rule stating that students who take longer to complete their courses have to pay more. Before I can comment on that, let me inform you beforehand that my knowledge regarding the benefits a Dutch student receives from the government is minimal. If it were India, my home, there’s no way such government measures would have been accepted, but the fact is that students in India don’t get allowances like in most European countries. When it comes to the Netherlands I have heard that students get monthly allowances, and their fee is around 1500 euros, which is quite okay when compared to the standard of living here (forgive me if I am wrong, these are just my observations).

    Now I totally understand that it is difficult for students to complete courses like Embedded Systems at universities like TU/e within the stipulated time, due to an impossible workload, internships, projects etcetera. The time constraint imposed now I believe will only force students to take up more courses and that in turn will reduce their efficiency in each. I can attest to this fact: being an international student it is not an option for me to extend my studies by one more year. As a result I try to take more courses and hence the level of proficiency I gain in each of my subjects too is reduced.

    The amount of work students here are expected to do is unreasonable and prevents them from exploiting their 2 years to go deeply into a particular specialization of their interest. So although the government is right this time, just one year of extra time is not good enough.

    Siddharth Chunduri, a Master student of Embedded Systems