Nyenrode (see profile), a Dutch school, has announced that it is postponing the start of this year's full-time MBA because it can no longer secure bank loans for its foreign students, blaming the recession.

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These Dutch theatre school students face a tough future with less cash to fund the industry they dream of playing a role in.

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Salar al Khafaji, a Dutch entrepreneur who went to school in Amsterdam, said it was much the same there.

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Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School observes that the Dutch reforms have led to rapid consolidation of insurers and hospitals, fuelling resented price increases.

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Multilingual Dutch chef Eveline Zoutendijk established the first cooking school in Istanbul in 2002, kick-starting a craze for culinary tourism that shows no sign of abating.

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How company began: After business school and a stint in the Dutch Marines, Mark Diks--a no-nonsense type with a wry sense of humor--went to work as head of sales at his family's iron-bed manufacturer, where he saw how fragmented the furnishings market was.

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The school said the suspect left its senior school in October 2011 as a result of inappropriate behaviour, Dutch broadcaster NOS reports.

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Not on your nellie, say Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton from London Business School (LBS), in an annual study of global investment returns sponsored by ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, that was published last week.

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However the Institute for Public Policy Research in its recent report on childcare costs, Double Dutch, said this figure wrongly incorporated elements which should not be classified as childcare, such as the cost of school for five and six year olds.

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