Today the school board announced that the program will cease to exist after the graduation of the current group of students. According to Avans+, on the one hand due to the ‘language and culture barrier that remains too great a challenge in practice’. On the other hand, due to ‘uncertainties in the recruitment process and the expectations sometimes outlined for Indonesian students’.
The Avans+ spokesperson does not further explain how exactly this language and culture barrier plays a role and what ambiguities and expectations are involved. “Things did not go well in a number of areas,” says the spokesperson. “We will now focus on the students.”
About 200 more students are now following the course and doing internships at eleven healthcare institutions. The program will enter into discussions with them in the ‘very short term’. “These are conversations about the wishes and needs of students. We will see whether customization is needed so that they can complete their education. That has always been the goal anyway, that they can complete their education. Our focus is entirely on the student to help them,” the spokesperson said.
It is not clear how the school plans to help the current group of students reach the finish line. The spokesperson points to a statement that the school released a few weeks ago. In it, the school says it ‘regrets that some students are experiencing adverse consequences’. It also says it is ‘shocked’ by a number of things that emerge in the EenVandaag broadcasts. Such as the app messages that the then chairman of the Board of Directors of Zorggroep Drenthe sent to at least two students.
Just like the penalty clause and the lawyer who, without the knowledge of the students, litigated on their behalf against the IND, was a shareholder in the intermediary Yomema and tried to sell his shares for 1.3 million euros. “We clearly distance ourselves from that,” Avans+ writes.