‘The RUG puts so much emphasis on the value of its international students,’ she says, but even with a translator available during the meetings, Alexandra can only understand about one-third of the documents being discussed. Vice chancellor Elmer Sterken agrees with her objections: ‘We want to have more international students in the university council; therefore it’s important that all information is available to them’.

Sterken admitted that, even for him, sometimes the Dutch documents are barely comprehensible.