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• Campaign medal honours NPT projects in Vietnam

  The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has awarded Nuffic senior programme administrator Tjay Koen Yap the prestigious 'Campaign Medal for People’s Health’. He ...

• An open approach to capacity building

  Open course ware may help create academic teaching communities supporting higher education institutions in developing countries. Since 2008 the Dutch Ministry ...

• Shaping the future: Dutch cooperation in post-secondary education

  Future Dutch development cooperation programmes in post-secondary education and training should be more closely linked to four priority areas of the Dutch ...

• NICHE partners in South Africa join forces

  South Africa was one of the first countries in which NICHE projects were launched. Most of the eleven projects in the country are now well underway and ready ...

• Mozambique study paves way for collaboration

  Nuffic has published a study on the alignment of professional education and the labour market in Mozambique. The report identifies strengths and weaknesses and ...

• Nuffic and PIE produce sustainability toolkit

  Nuffic and PIE, the Platform for International Education, joined forces to organise a hands-on seminar on sustainability in capacity building projects for ...

• Ethiopian delegation on study tour in Holland

  A delegation of presidents, vice-presidents and project coordinators of eight Ethiopian universities visited the Netherlands on a study tour in November 2011. ...

• New ambitions in African education

  Between 11 and 19 February 2012, the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou was host to the triennial conference of the Association for the Development of ...

• NFP: first round Tailor-Made Training a success

  The Tailor-Made Training programme, which is part of the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes, was launched on 1 January 2012. The first deadline, on 1 April, ...

• NICHE rules and regulations workshop

  On 6 March 2012 almost 50 Dutch implementers of NICHE projects came together in Utrecht for a workshop focused on the NICHE Financial Rules and Regulations, ...

• Nuffic identifies obstacles in mainstreaming gender

  In many of the capacity development programmes managed by Nuffic gender equality proves hard to reach. Even when explicit gender-related specifications are ...

• Nuffic examines interest in development cooperation programmes

  Participation of Dutch higher education institutions in international development cooperation programmes such as NICHE and NFP is essential. Nuffic has ...

• Nuffic launches Tailor-Made Training programme

  Nuffic is launching a new capacity building programme under the NFP programme: Tailor-Made Training (TMT). The NFP Tailor-Made Training programme is geared ...

• Guatemalan university honours Netherlands and Nuffic

  In 2011 San Carlos University in Guatemala has started a NICHE project on land administration which is being implemented by the Faculty of Geo-information ...

• Phasing out of International Fellowships Programme for developing countries

  Between 2001 and 2011, the Ford Foundation sponsored scholarships for postgraduate study to candidates from 22 developing countries worldwide. Nuffic managed ...

• NICHE seminar on gender and labour market issues

  Fifty-four participants from nine African countries shared their best practices on mainstreaming gender and labour market issues at a NICHE seminar in Rwanda ...

• The 5 Cs of integrated capacity development

  Nuffic recently held an internal meeting on Integrated Capacity Development (ICD), with two experts on the subject. The aim was to enhance understanding of the ...

• Tilburg University welcomes Ethiopian PhD students

  In February a group of twenty Ethiopian students arrived in Tilburg at the Development Research Institute (IVO), as part of a 2.8 million NICHE project ...

• NICHE project helps Bangladesh Delta Plan

  Climate change poses significant risks for Bangladesh. To deal with these risks, it is important that Bangladesh has high quality education and training ...

• Simplification of NICHE procedures and documents

  Based on feedback from our partners, Nuffic has reviewed some of its documentation to help make project management easier while preserving accountability.

• Successful tailor-made training in Tanzania

  A recent letter sent to Nuffic highlighted the spin-off that can come from successful training proposals. The message explained that a TMT-subsidised ...

• Burma/Myanmar added to NFP country list

  Burma/Myanmar has been added to the NFP country list, which means that as of now eligible candidates from Burma/Myanmar can apply for an NFP fellowship.

• Dutch institutions still interested in development programmes

  A recent Nuffic study shows that development cooperation is no longer a priority in most higher education institutions’ central policy. Instead, any ...

• Nuffic collaborates with African Network for Internationalisation of Education

  The African Network for Internationalisation of Education (ANIE) is collaborating with Nuffic on a research project, titled Internationalisation of Higher ...

• Shaping the Future: conference proceedings online

  On 2-3 July the conference ‘Shaping the Future’ took place in The Hague. The conference was organised by Nuffic on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of ...