Colleges and universities of applied sciences are involved in a wide range of activities related to international business education. International collaborations have always raised concerns because the participants in these activities coming from various jurisdictions also bring certain security and …

A reflective goal-setting intervention could help students adjust to higher education, and improve their performance and well-being, as has been shown by small-scale and quasi-experimental studies conducted so far. However, a large experimental study found no effects, highlighting the importance of replication, …

The participating universities and their associated partners under the Committed project have formulated the following recommendations to help the European legislators create a coherent system in educating and preparing the HEIs for proper handling of compliance risks and issues in research and education …

Moral food lab: Transforming the food system with crowd-sourced ethics

Evidence-based education (EBE) riep de afgelopen twintig jaar flinke weerstand op vanuit onderwijsonderzoekers en de praktijk. Sommigen gebruiken liever de term evidence-informed. Anderen keren zich compleet tegen de onderneming. Waarom eigenlijk? Hoe goed zijn hun redenen? Martijn Meeter en ik gingen …

Deze workshop staat in het teken van human capital in relatie tot energietransitie. De energietransitie is een wereldwijde uitdaging. In onze regio is het daarbij een doelstelling om na gas ook koploper in Duurzame Energie te worden en te blijven, bijvoorbeeld in waterstof. Hoe zou de regionale human …

Onlangs kreeg ik een boek aangereikt dat de bevriende eigenaar ervan vervulde met een mengelmoes van fascinatie en weerzin. Het heet Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers, The Michaela Way (2016), onder eindredactie van Katharine Birbalsingh. Het boek is vernoemd naar het in 2011 wereldwijd ambivalent ontvangen …

One in three university students experiences mental health problems during their study. A similar percentage leaves higher education without obtaining the degree for which they enrolled. Research suggests that both mental health problems and academic underperformance could be caused by students lacking …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …