Excellence programmes analysed from selection to effectsCHEPS’ researchers Renze Kolster and Don Westerheijden participated in a multi-year research project to analyse excellence programmes in Dutch higher education, from selection of students to the learning effects on them, and to the impact these programmes have on the broader education environment in the institutions. A number of articles from the project have been published in the European Journal of Higher Education and are available open access.Read more
A NEW FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT GREATER SOCIETAL IMPACT OF UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPEThe EU-funded project Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education (TEFCE) has launched the TEFCE Toolbox, an institutional self-reflection framework that supports universities to improve how they address societal needs through partnerships with their external communities. Developed and piloted over two years through a process involving 180 experts and practitioners from eight EU Member States, including CHEPS and Kennispunt Twente, the TEFCE Toolbox presents an innovative, robust and holistic framework to support universities’ community engagement. The TEFCE Toolbox is available as a fully open-access resource at www.tefce.eu/toolbox.Read more
Excellence programmes analysed from selection to effects
A NEW FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT GREATER SOCIETAL IMPACT OF UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE
Performance Agreements in Denmark, Ontario and the Netherlands
Lisa Nieth successfully defended her dissertation 
U-Multirank’s 2020 edition is now online!
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Research on excellence education published
Governance and policy instrument analysis in Dutch higher education
Hans Vossensteyn is leaving CHEPS to start at Saxion
Barend van der Meulen appointed as full professor of Institutional Aspects of (Higher) Education
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