One of the factors that differentiate honors from regular teaching at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, is the freedom that honors students enjoy, a freedom that evokes excellence because it is focused and targeted. This targeted freedom takes three different shapes in …

In Dutch universities, honors programs are a fast growing development. The first such programs started in 1993. Twenty years later a large number of programs are implemented at nearly all research universities and also at many universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Recent data have revealed …

Deze inventarisatie is uitgevoerd om inzicht te geven in de ontwikkelingen van het excellentieonderwijs in het Hoger Beroepsonderwijs (HBO). Doel is in beeld te krijgen hoe het excellentieonderwijs in het Nederlandse HBO er voor staat en wat mogelijke knelpunten en succesfactoren zijn. Nevendoelen zijn …

The overall question of this study is: to what extent do connections exist between mission statements, performance indicators, and program assessments that might indicate a significant alignment and indicate the effectiveness of honors programs?

The lack of career movement of members of ethnic minority groups in work organizations has been widely documented. The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into conditions for the realization of diversity goals in the case of talent development.

Pedagogy for gifted and talented students in higher education is the main topic of this study. Teachers of educational programmes designed for talented or highly motivated students in higher education (here called honours programmes) are challenged to stimulate students to increase the quality of their …

This presentation compares the two main gifted education programmes for undergraduate students in the Netherlands and Germany. The programmes were evaluated and will be compared in terms of the institutions involved, the educational objectives pursued, the nature of support provided to the students, …