Dutch students are lazy

'A six as a grade is enough’, is the general consensus. Why should students work hard to get a eight of nine as grade? ‘Everyone gets a study grant, even though you get relatively low grades. Your future employer won’t look at your grading list’, says third-year student philosophy in an article of nrc.next about this subject.

No effort

The Dutch student is lazy. Extremely lazy, according to results of an international research. Our Dutch students take their time to do their study, and only one quarter of all the students wants to take real effort to get a high grade. Moreover, with only 31 hours of study a week, we are way below the European average of 36 hours a week.

Can it be worse?

Only Czechs and Fins know how to be even more lazy than we are. The most eager students live in France and Switzerland. In those countries, master students spend respectively 43 en 40 hours a week on their study. Maybe the Dutchmen can learn more quickly and easily? No… The Dutch students show, additional to the few hours of study, quite disappointing study behaviour. These were the results of a research carried out by Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) in Maastricht.

Major change in system

Although the Dutch government tries to select studies because of their quality, nothing assumes this is going to happen. Therefore, a major change is needed in the system according to the article. How? By updating the materials, make the study a challenge. Study has to become more personal again, and less extended, because full lecture halls and enormous educational organizations don’t motivate…