• Delta asked Kences what the claim was based on. Jos Bakker, the press spokesperson, explains that you need to combine several graphics. Kences’ claim thus primarily looks at the future in which the advocacy organisation predicts the growth of the number of international students up to the 2029-2030 academic year, and does the same for the total number of diploma students in the Netherlands. The 2021-2022 academic year still applies as the starting point to compare the future growth. While the number of international students increases to 153,100 in 2029-2030, the number of Dutch diploma students in that same academic year droppes by 17,700, which meant the total number of students was 788,900. This includes both pre-university education and higher general secondary education students. Kences then compares the number of international students, which is added to the student population, to the future demand for student rooms. Kences infers by definition that international students do not live at home. ‘If we divide the figure of the increase in international diploma students (40,700) by the expected increase in the demand for student housing (42,700), you get a percentage of 95%’ states Bakker in a written answer.