During the next few years, the University of Twente, with its 'high tech, human touch' profile, will be making even greater efforts to improve the quality of its teaching and research. One aspect of this more focused strategy is the renewal of the curriculum. This is a response by the UT to the plans of the current government, which has adopted most of the recommendations from the Veerman Commission. Students currently at the UT or who will be enrolling for the forthcoming academic year will be able to complete their programmes without being affected. RENEWAL OF PROGRAMMES
Part of the enhanced strategy involves the renewal of the curriculum in the Bachelor's phase, in which the emphasis will be shifted towards the learning of academic skills and project work. The main advantage of this is that new students will be given a greater number of options during their programme, that they will be able to find their way more quickly to the specialization that is right for them, and that their pass rates will improve. In addition, it will be possible to organize teaching more efficiently thanks to scale benefits and harmonization in the educational model.
The new Bachelor's programme curriculum will consist of the existing Technical Medicine programme, the planned University College, and nine new Bachelor's programmes. Students will subsequently be able to specialize within these nine new programmes; this will be organized in the form of majors, in which most of the existing Bachelor's programmes will retain a clear identity.
None of the students currently at the UT, or those who will be enrolling next year, will be affected by these changes.
The UMT is proposing to launch one new Bachelor's programme in 2012, and the remainder in 2013.
RESEARCH
The UT is committed to further improving the quality of its research and to the relationships between different research projects in order to strengthen the profile of the UT and to enable it to stand out more from other universities. This may lead to research groups being reclassified.
THE NEXT STAGE
The details of the plans are currently being worked out. Rector Magnificus Ed Brinksma will present the plans to staff members and students on the UT Onderwijsdag (Day of Education) on 8 April.
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