Counselling and tutoring

There are departmental study advisers available for students to give advice and support in all matters concerning their personal situation and their personal development. Your adviser will be mrs. Thea de Kluijver. The adviser helps and supports in personal matters, especially when they interfere with your career as a student. But the adviser can also help and support in matters concerning extracurricular activities, to find stimulus, motivation and reward for your personal development.

For support and feedback on your path towards your final qualifications as a Creative Technology graduate, you will also have a tutor. The tutor is a member of staff with whom you will set your personal learning goals, derived from the general goals of the curriculum and the various courses. Together with the tutor you select essential competencies which deserve your special attention, and together you look for ways to improve these competencies. You report to the tutor on your progress, the tutor gives you feedback on your achievements. The things you do together with the tutor are aligned with the things you do in projects and courses.

The tutor takes care of 10-12 students, in this tutor group you exercise peer reviewing and intervision, to learn from each other. You and your group will meet the tutor on a regular basis. In the course timetable an afternoon is scheduled free for tutoring. Part of the tutoring process is a portfolio, which serves to demonstrate your growth towards the final qualifications, and your achievements in design.

Counselling & tutoring in the 1^st year

There will be regular tutoring meetings, throughout the year. During the introduction, the first year students will be introduced to the study adviser. In the first quarter you will meet with the study adviser for an introductory interview. The study adviser monitors student’s first year results and their study progress. If necessary, she will make an appointment with you, or you can request an appointment yourself.

After the first examination period, you will receive a ‘pre-advice’ on your study progress. At the end of the first study year you will receive an official assessment of your study progress, and your prospects for a successful study. This study progress assesment isn’t binding.

Counselling & tutoring in the 2^nd and 3^rd year

There will be regular tutoring meetings, during the year. The study adviser may invite you for a meeting, if your studyresults are insufficient. Students can also contact the study adviser to make an appointment. The study adviser can offer assistance and give information on study courses, planning, exams, personal circumstances, etc.

The study adviser also monitors the progress of students. At the end of each semester the student’s progress is evaluated, to determine whether continuation is recommended and whether there are particular areas where improvement is needed. If you receive a negative advice, we strongly recommended you to contact the study adviser.

During your study information meetings will take place. These meetings are about various practical topics: organisation of the second year, organisation of the third year, elective courses information, minor market, preparation of your Master choice.

Study adviser

The study adviser for Creative Technology students is Mrs. Thea de Kluijver. If you have any questions about the regulations within the program, or if you want to talk about study related issues, you can contact her.

Thea de Kluijver

Building Zilverling, room 1003

Telephone: 053 489 3697

E-mail: t.h.dekluijver@utwente.nl

Student Counselling Services

The desk of the Student Counselling Service (the “Rode Balie”/“Red Desk”) is responsible for individual care and support of UT students at a coordinating level (besides the care educational programmes take for their “own” students). This includes for example a student psychologist, various courses (“self management”, graduating, job application) and the student counsellor.

Student psychologist

You can get help from the student psychologist when you need to talk to someone, for instance when you experience personal problems such as problems in your relation with your parents, friends or fellow students. You do not need a referral: you can make an appointment yourself. The student psychology service aims at having the first session within a week after the student contacted them.

Student counsellor

The student counsellor offers help when you have questions about, for instance, student grants, UT financial support, switching disciplines, problems involved with switching from a school for Higher Vocational Education to University, personal problems, appeal procedures, studying abroad, studying with a disability, and entrance examination (colloquium doctum). In order to make an appointment you need to telephone the secretariat. You have to take the initiative yourself to make an appointment with the student counsellor.

Student Services

Apart from “the red desk”, Student Services also offers various support services: you can go there to have your digital picture taken for your student card, to register, enrol or de-enrol. Student Services is situated in the Vrijhof building.