What is student excellence? Excellence programs in higher education in the NL / Hanzehogeschool

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 …

Het Nederlandse Hoger Onderwijs richt zich steeds meer op het bevorderen van excellentie onder studenten. Honoursprogramma’s en Colleges bieden talentvolle en gemotiveerde studenten nieuwe mogelijkheden. Volgens afspraken tussen het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap en de Nederlandse universiteiten …

In September 2009 the department of Engineering of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands has started a pilot honours program for excellent engineering students called PRogram OUstanding Development (PROUD). Aim of this program is to give those engineering students, who have the ambition, …

Presentation at EARLI conference 2011 in Exeter (UK). Empirical research (N= 731) on possible difference between undergraduate honours students and 'average students' with regard to their ethical sensitivity.

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, …

Combining ethics and excellence in education of gifted students.