Articles for Dutch Values

Learning Dutch to be central to new "integration" approach
1 month, 1 week ago

Learning Dutch to be central to new "integration" approach

Dutch News  

“The coalition agreement stated that employers are to be given more responsibility for their workers’ language education,” Nobel said in a 12-page outline of his plans to integrate foreign residents into the Netherlands. “More details on improving the language skills of people who don’t have to integrate will be published in the first quarter.” A spokeswoman for the social affairs …

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Immigrants in Netherlands must now pledge to uphold, support Dutch values
7 years, 8 months ago

Immigrants in Netherlands must now pledge to uphold, support Dutch values

NL Times  

On Tuesday the Dutch Senate voted in a legislative amendment which states that all immigrants to the Netherlands must sign a pledge to uphold and support Dutch values as part of their integration exam. The pledge will be preceded by a course in which the immigrant is introduced and made familiar with the standards, values and rules of Dutch society. …

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Schools struggle with government citizenship lesson demands
8 years, 1 month ago

Schools struggle with government citizenship lesson demands

Dutch News  

Dutch schools are struggling with increasing government demands about lessons in good citizenship which some say infringe on the right to freedom of education, the Volkskrant said on Wednesday. Currently, schools are allowed to deal with such subjects in their own way but education ministers Jet Bussemaker and Sander Dekker want to introduce legislation setting down which ‘key values’ schools …

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Schools struggle with government citizenship lesson demands
8 years, 1 month ago

Schools struggle with government citizenship lesson demands

Dutch News  

Dutch schools are struggling with increasing government demands about lessons in good citizenship which some say infringe on the right to freedom of education, the Volkskrant said on Wednesday. Currently, schools are allowed to deal with such subjects in their own way but education ministers Jet Bussemaker and Sander Dekker want to introduce legislation setting down which ‘key values’ schools …

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Newcomers must pledge to uphold Dutch values, sign contract
9 years, 3 months ago

Newcomers must pledge to uphold Dutch values, sign contract

Dutch News  

All newcomers to the Netherlands who are required to take an integration course will also have to sign a ‘participation declaration’ pledging to uphold Dutch values, the government agreed on Friday. However, ‘at a later moment, people who do not have to take integration courses, such as EU migrants, may also be offered such a programme’, social affairs minister Lodewijk …

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Newcomers must pledge to uphold Dutch values, sign contract
9 years, 3 months ago

Newcomers must pledge to uphold Dutch values, sign contract

Dutch News  

All newcomers to the Netherlands who are required to take an integration course will also have to sign a ‘participation declaration’ pledging to uphold Dutch values, the government agreed on Friday. However, ‘at a later moment, people who do not have to take integration courses, such as EU migrants, may also be offered such a programme’, social affairs minister Lodewijk …

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Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders in Perth to launch anti-Islam party
9 years, 4 months ago

Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders in Perth to launch anti-Islam party

ABC  

Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders was expected to launch the anti-Islam Australian Liberty Alliance political party in Perth at a secret location today. Mr Wilders tweeted that he had enjoyed "a wonderful boat trip" on Perth Swan River on Monday night, and that it was "great to be back in Australia". Mr Wilders previously labelled Islam "retarded", called the Prophet …

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