In 2018, Leeuwarden will be European Capital of Culture. Like many other organisations, Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden (HCL) is currently preparing its programme. At the same time, the experience economy has already shifted towards an economy of meaning. The HCL has made efforts to adapt heritage education …

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

This research was conducted on behalf of the education of ‘Management in Healthcare’ at the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. The study of ‘Management in Healthcare’ is an dual education that is intended for working healthcare professionals to a middle manager position in the healthcare and welfare …

Ondanks de toegenomen virtualisering van ons werk en de daarmee samenhangende nieuwe werkvormen is het kantoor voor veel mensen nog steeds de belangrijkste plek waar het werk wordt gedaan. Daarmee is het kantoor ook een plek waar veel tijd wordt doorgebracht. Maar hoe is de situatie feitelijk? En hoe …

An extended SERVQUAL instrument is developed, validated and used to measure perceived service quality delivered to students by business schools in an emerging market economy. A longitudinal survey is conducted with selected students in their final year of study from two business schools in an emerging …

Background Total laryngectomy with or without adjuvant (chemo)radiation often induces speech, swallowing and neck and shoulder problems. Speech, swallowing and shoulder exercises may prevent or diminish these problems. The aim of the present paper is to describe the study, which is designed to investigate …

Since March 2015 the Faculty of Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) is a CDIO member with all its twelve programs: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Building Engineering, Civil Engineering, Climate …

Full text met een HU Account Objective: To quantify diversity in components of self-management interventions and explore which components are associated with improvement in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), …

PURPOSE: To examine physician assistant (PA) job satisfaction and identify factors predicting job satisfaction and identify areas of needed research. With a global PA movement underway and a half-century in development, the empirical basis for informing employers of approaches to improve job satisfaction …

For Universities, or for similar institutes of higher education, it is increasingly difficult to initialize a Master-programme within The Netherlands. They have to find their way through the maze of a growing number of rules and regulations and quality controls. A side issue that occurs is that these …