Professionalisation. 2.6.1. The parties are agreed to full co-operation with any reskilling programmes for identified needs areas, such as ICT, HRM, finance and project management skills:
Professionalisation. Theme description in Sector Agreement: ‘Good and involved teachers are the key to high-quality education. Efforts could be made at improving the professional qualities of teachers. This should also include greater appreciation of the work of teachers, by placing greater emphasis on teaching performance at university level, for example. Teachers should also be kept up-to-date with the most recent developments from a substantive, didactic, and digital perspective. It would help here if they were able to share their own course material and to use that of others. Teachers should have more opportunities to work on their own development, by carrying out research, for example (in the case of university of applied sciences teachers).’ Our teaching staff offer high-quality education. In our Vision for Education, we share our ambition to maintain this high quality by supporting teaching staff in their ongoing efforts to keep their education up to date, peer reviewed, and strongly interlinked with research. In addition, we invest in the development and implementation of various new and innovative teaching and assessment methods to strengthen our small-scale education and to enable flexible learning paths. New innovations, increased flexibility, and activating learning change the role of lecturers. To implement these innovations and continuous enhancements, and to fulfil new roles, we want to strengthen and facilitate professionalisation. We have concluded that a lack of time is a major impediment to lecturers making use of options for professionalisation. Measures are needed to give more time to lecturers for professionalisation without adding to the currently high workload. We will facilitate and stimulate chair groups to give their staff more time for professionalisation, and we want to unburden staff and support them with on-the-job professionalisation. Stimulating chair groups to facilitate professionalisation We will create a fund to offer financial compensation for professionalisation of staff. Chair holders will be able to request compensation for the costs of and time spent on courses and attending training. Chair holders can promote professionalisation in multiple ways. Staff can visit the Teachers’ day, participate in the 4TU Centre for Engineering Education, apply for an educational sabbatical, conduct peer reviews, consult instructional designers, participate in innovations, and much more. Chair holders will be able to give academic staff the option to fo...
