Just like music and art education, technical education is very closely linked to practice in an ever changing world. Techniques come and go, sometimes at lightning speed. Especially at the level of secondary vocational education (level 2, 3 and 4) there are shortages in well trained craftsmen. Technical …

The current assignment of vocational programs in higher education is to educate future evidence-based professionals. Often is presumed that a substantial connection between research and teaching is needed to be able to provide the right context and content to achieve this aim with students (Healey & …

Futures Literacy (FL), developed by UNESCO (2014), is a capability that provides insight into how we approach unforeseeable challenges by using the future to innovate the present (Miller, 2015). When we only use the past to predict the future, detecting novelty is difficult. By knowing how we are using …

The Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (Nuffic) conducted a study [1, 2] into institutional policy on internationalization in 2014 in the Netherlands. This study included most Dutch Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Of these, 27 (59%) had a central-level plan, eight …

Conferentie over onderwijsinstellingen, dienstverlenende afdelingen en diverse klantengroep: docenten, (internationale) studenten, medewerkers en externe partijen. Doel van dag was beantwoording vraag:"Hoe zorg je ervoor dat iedereen geniet van excellente dienstverlening? Welke vormen van digitale …

In the Netherlands, a growing number of vocational education and training institutions have recently implemented new vocational career guidance practices in their competence-based approaches to learning. Vocational career guidance refers to services intended to assist people, of any age and at any point …

Dit onderzoek gaat over het verbeteren van de kwaliteit van de dienstverlening van ROC Mondriaan wat betreft de doorstroom tussen het mbo en hbo binnen de afdeling welzijn. Met het begrip ‘doorstroom’ wordt de overstap van het mbo naar het hbo bedoeld. Veel mbo-studenten hebben het moeilijk met deze …

Since 2016, the European Honors Council stimulates talent development programs at European Higher Education Institutions, which help talented young people to reach their full potential, so they can positively contribute to the solving of societal problems. This is a challenging process, but we are convinced …