Dutch Language

Dutch (Nederlands ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 24 million people as a first language and 5 million people as a second language, constituting the majority of people in the Netherlands (where it is the sole official language countrywide) and Belgium (as one of three official languages). It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives English and German. Outside the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname where it also holds an official status, as it does in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which …

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International Longevity Centre · 28 February 2024 English

• Increased investment in lifelong learning Many of these countries invest more public funding in education, both to encourage and enable a wide range of provision and to reduce the …

everyone up to the same level. Schemes focus on Dutch language learning and digital skills, with priority


EU: European Union · 8 February 2024 English

Commission delegated regulation correcting the Dutch language version of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2015


EUA: European University Association · 15 December 2023 English

All five universities must adhere to the provisions of the decree on higher education (Codex Hoger Onderwijs), and each of them has a commissioner of the government sitting on the …

staff. However, international staff must take Dutch language proficiency tests to work at universities. English-language versions of study programmes over their Dutch-language equivalents. This raises concerns about the students, makes it necessary to deviate from the Dutch language. In practice, this has given significant autonomy permanent restrictions on enrolment in non-Dutch language courses. 57 Autonomy of public universities


World Bank Group · 1 December 2023 English

age, ethnicity, problems understanding the Dutch language, educational attainment, training direction


World Bank Group · 1 December 2023 English

In the Netherlands, the labor market ischaracterized by a high amount of parttime jobs (mainly held by women) and acomparatively high share of temporaryemployment and self-employment.4 On the onehand, flexible …

technology (ICT) proficiency, and do not master the Dutch language. Age is also a factor in the use of online


EU: European Union · 6 November 2023 English

lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/407/23 – Dutch-language (NL) lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/408/23


INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 30 October 2023 French

from a semantic annotation of parts of two Dutch-language medical encyclopedias. On the chunk-level of


VUB: Interface Demography · 27 October 2023 English

The mission of the university includes: • the development, the transfer and the application of high-standing academic education and scientific research, free from any prejudice; • community integration of this …

Supervision of an additional course in the Dutch-language programme is also an option. In addition, you


EU: European Union · 11 October 2023 English

lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/407/23 – Dutch-language (NL) lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/408/23


EU: European Union · 19 September 2023 English

lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/407/23 – Dutch-language (NL) lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/408/23 lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/407/23 – Dutch-language (NL) lawyer-linguists (AD 7) – EPSO/AD/408/23


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