June
At the start of 2009 Nuffic carried out a customer satisfaction survey. The aim was to get a better insight into how satisfied students (incoming as well as outgoing) and staff of higher education institutions are with our service in general.
Since May 2009 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) and Nuffic send out a joint digital newsletter about relevant issues around immigration procedures.
The Consortium for Higher Education and Research Performance Assessment (CHERPA) will develop a new global ranking system for higher education.
The www.nuffic.nl website will be off-line for maintenance for a short while from 12.30hrs on Wednesday 10 June. The same applies to the Nuffic forums.
On 9 June, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded the NWO/Spinoza Prize for 2009 to three researchers. The prize is the highest Dutch award in science and as such is sometimes referred to as the ‘Dutch Nobel prize'.
From September this year, NHTV Breda will be the first university of applied sciences to offer an independent academic bachelor's programme.
65 higher education institutions from 16 countries have recently been awarded with special European quality labels in recognition of their efforts to make it easier for students to study abroad.
At the end of last week The Independent published a very positive article about the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Excluded and marginalized social groups should benefit from the growth of international higher education. This argues a new book about the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (Ford-IFP).