Integration of foreign students in Dutch student life

Hard to get in touch with the Dutch".The Dutch are nice, but are not open to friendships with foreigners. Germans drive home immediately after a tutorial group meeting and Maastricht has no student life in the weekend. The debate on the integration of foreign students in Dutch student life, organised last Monday by the Maastricht Student Council (MSC), identified the problems in Maastricht student culture. While the lecture hall on the Tongersestraat was packed because of the Schuman lecture at eight o'clock in the evening, eighteen students have made their way to the auditorium on the Minderbroedersberg for the MSC debate. "It is disappointing that we are the only ones who are interested in this," they say. The discussion, however, hardly suffers from it, they feel: "I now know exactly what everyone here thinks about this subject." Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news