Quality AgreementsQuality Agreements • February 25th, 2022
In April 2018, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science signed an agreement with the higher education sector on the substantiation of the Higher Education Quality Agreements (2019 – 2024). NVAO was requested to assess the agreements.
Quality agreements 2019-2024 HZ University of Applied SciencesQuality Agreements • June 4th, 2019
This memorandum describes how HZ University of Applied Sciences (HZ) intends to use the student advance funds in the period up to and including 2024, and which goals are pursued, in keeping with the objectives of the organization. The sectoral agreement stipulates that the student advance funds must be used for the following six themes:
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Quality agreementsQuality Agreements • February 5th, 2024
The last year of the current quality agreements has begun. Starting from 2025, the funds will be continued and structurally allocated to higher education institutions to ensure and improve the quality of education. In this new version of the agreements, it remains important to safeguard the involvement of (student) representation. A motion accepted by the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) in 2022 extended the right to consent to the investments of the (new) quality agreements. As a council, you will be able to exercise this right through the annual budget outline. To make specific agreements around this process at your specific institution, a discussi- on between the Executive Board and the council should take place. It is crucial that (student) representation is assertive in this matter, ensuring that the Executive Board cannot arbitrarily determine the future allocation of the study advance funds. In this guide we’ll explain the facts and provide some advice to start the conver
Quality AgreementsQuality Agreements • May 28th, 2022
In 2015 the Dutch government cancelled the study grant and replaced this with a social lending system. The budget which was made free by cutting this grant, was promised to be made available for structural investments which were to benefit the quality of education. In order to make sure that this agreement is kept, the faculty councils were given right of consent on the allocation of tuition fee resources of TiSEM. During the last faculty council, ECCO was happy to provide its consent on this matter. This was, amongst others, due to the investment in learning analytics and the increased budget for the supervision of students through the Tilburg Education Profile.
Quality AgreementsQuality Agreements • July 13th, 2018
