Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Ronald Plasterk of Netherlands

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Plasterk is a highly cited and prize-winning molecular geneticist.

Since 2001 Plasterk has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Plasterk was a member of the Leiden city council for the Labour Party in the early 1980s.

Because of this appointment Plasterk has ended his scientific career, because he considers it is impossible to leave research for several years and then hope to reintegrate.

As minister Plasterk is responsible for Higher Education and Scientific Education, for Research, Culture and Media, Women's Emancipation and of the LBGT, and for policy on the unemployed in the Education sector.

When there was no room in the national budget to increase the salaries of teachers as advised by a committee led by Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Plasterk was forced to find money from within the budget of his own ministry.

Plasterk was strongly criticized by the students unions for his proposals and by his coalition partners CDA and CU and the leftwing opposition parties SP and GroenLinks.

Under the pressure of strikes by teachers, Plasterk came to a deal with the teachers´ union in April 2008.

Plasterk is married and has two children.

Plasterk is a member of the Royal Christian Oratory Association "Excelsior" in Amsterdam, where he sings as a tenor.

Ronald Hans Anton (Ronald) Plasterk was born in The Hague on 12 April 1957.

Mr Plasterk is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities.

On 22 February 2007 Mr Plasterk was appointed Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the fourth Balkenende government.

Mr Plasterk is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA.

Earlier in the week, Plasterk was defending his decision.

Plasterk said this week that the annual government subsidy provided to the Our Way foundation will be no.

Plasterk had initially intended the ban on garments such as the burka and niqab only for schools, citing the importance of children being able to recognize and identify others.

However, Plasterk had to adapt his plans on the insistence of a majority in parliament.

UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS--Dutch molecular geneticist Ronald Plasterk has proven to be as deft at dissecting the political scene as he is at analyzing transposons and RNA.

Amsterdam - Dutch education minister Ronald Plasterk said there were no plans to lift a ban on Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, after comments in which he was quoted as saying the book should be made freely available were published Wednesday.

Most people think banning the Koran is one step too far," Plasterk had told Hollands Diep.

Amsterdam - Dutch Education Minister Ronald Plasterk has said Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf should be freely obtainable, according to a Wednesday report.

Perhaps we should lift the ban on Mein Kampf," Labour member Plasterk was quoted as saying in an interview with magazine Hollands Diep.

Most people think banning the Koran is one step too far," Plasterk says in the interview.

Face-covering Islamic robes known as burqas and niqabs are to be banned from Hollands colleges and universities, education minister Ronald Plasterk said on Wednesday.

The burqa and niqab are absurd, women-unfriendly and get in the way of integration, Plasterk is quoted as saying by website nu.

Plasterk is a former professor of molecular microbiology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where my friend, Frances Brazier, is a computer science professor.

Frances said that as a university professor, Plasterk was clearly used to looking at faces.

Dutch scientist Ronald Plasterk has been appointed Minister of Education, Culture & Science in Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkendende’s cabinet.

Plasterk has been in the political world for some time.

However, Dutch Education Minister Ronald Plasterk is encouraging students to master the Dutch language before engaging in studies in the Netherlands.

Plasterk was director of the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht (An English version of his CV can be found in the Google Cache, our ministers normally don't need a CV in another language than Dutch.

Plasterk is probably the best known advocate of OA publishing in the Netherlands.

Dutch Education Minister Ronald Plasterk says an orthodox Christian group will no longer receive a subsidy after allegedly attempting to cure homosexuality.

Plasterk said this week that the annual government subsidy provided to the Our Way foundation will be no more due to the Christian group's suspected attempts to alter the sexual orientations of gay and lesbian individuals, Radio Netherlands/Expatica said Friday.

Ronald Plasterk said yesterday in the Lower House that he does not object to Ramadan's appointment.

Minister Plasterk is normally a man of sound judgement.

Plasterk is an acclaimed molecular biologist, writer and of late politician, who serves as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands.

Mr Plasterk said he didn't think it would come to that and that presenters should be able to do with a little less money.

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Education and Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk said yesterday in the Lower House that he does not object to Ramadan's appointment.

But Plasterk was unimpressed: We live in a free country.

Mr Plasterk has cited security concerns and the need for teachers and schoolchildren to be able to communicate properly with each other.

Plasterk says adults can decide for themselves whether they want to be confronted with a teacher covering her face.

Minister Ronald Plasterk said the wearing of face-covering clothing was incompatible with the education process, because of the importance of non-verbal communication.