(Dutch News) The Dutch cabinet is to set up an investigation into informal weekend schools in the Netherlands following the news that Turkey is to fund 12 Saturday and Sunday schools for children aged six to 17.
The aim is to find out which countries as well as Turkey are funding informal schooling, social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees said. The investigation has been launched, Koolmees said, because he “shared MPs concerns” about the development.
“The Netherlands is a free and open society and that means that everyone is free to decide what courses or education programmes they follow,” the ministry statement said.
“Countries are free to stimulate their own language and culture abroad … and this is something the Netherlands does too.”
