We vonden in een interessant artikel dat mooi aansluit bij het artikel elders in dit blog "Vormt de Engelse taal een bedreiging voor het Nederlands?"

We vonden het op de website van de BBC (dus het is in het Engels) en is van de hand van Anna Holligan, BBC News, The Hague, 31 October 2018

Dutch language besieged by English at university

Students shake off their jackets and scarves as the lecturer opens up a power point presentation on "start-up innovations" and prepares to give his talk, which is entirely in English.

The language is the university's choice, Frank van Rijnsoever of Utrecht University tells me.

So extensive is the spread of English in Dutch universities, a group of lecturers has predicted a looming "linguicide" and demanded the government in The Hague impose a moratorium banning universities from creating any additional English language courses until an official impact analysis has been conducted.

Sixty per cent of masters programmes offered at Utrecht University are in English. At the highest honours level, virtually no courses are taught in Dutch.

To read more, follow this link to the BBC website