Internationals give CHN University a High Score

CHN University achieved an excellent score in an international poll among 29 universities and colleges geared to attracting many English-speaking foreign students. In the poll, organised by the English market research agency I-graduate, the two hundred internationals studying at CHN gave the professional university a final score of 80%. The results are the first of a global benchmarking covering mainly universities and colleges from Great-Britain, the United States and Australia. The emphasis is on English-language academic education. In the Netherlands, aside from CHN, Leiden University participated in the international benchmarking poll. According to CHN's international marketing coordinator, Fotine Zijlstra, CHN is apparently able to successfully compete with the most renowned universities in England, such as Cambridge and Brunel. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

No increase in starting salaries for Dutch University graduates

Recent university graduates have fewer and fewer problems finding a job quickly. However, their salaries remained about the same in 2005, while their purchasing power decreased. This was reported in the news magazine Elsevier in their recent issue on the job market. The figures were based on a survey of almost ten thousand first-time employees. The survey covers their position on the job market in 2005 and the first two months of 2006, leaving the recent economic surge out of the picture. The average net salary of a university graduate is now 1612 euros per month, 324 euros more than a HBO graduate. After peaking in 2002, the average salary of starters has gone down again and it is now just above the 1999 level. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

Tias MBA #1 according to Alumni

The IMM International Executive MBA Program offered by Tias Business School ranks #1 in the two-yearly ranking of part-time MBA programs in The Netherlands and Belgium, according to Alumni. The 2006 survey was carried out by Intermediair, a leading Dutch career journal, in co-operation with the SCO-Kohnstamm Institute (University of Amsterdam). The results are published in today's issue of Intermediair (Intermediair ranking MBA). Congratulations to the Tias Alumni who have made the top-3 ranking in The Netherlands possible! According to the Alumni of Tias, who have been questioned for the 2006 Intermediair ranking, the International Executive MBA Program of Tias Business School - which is offered with the Graduate Schools of Purdue University (USA), Central European University Budapest (Hungary), and GISMA Business School Hannover (Germany) - ranks #1. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

Bachelor International Hospitality Management scores high

The Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie, NVAO) in The Hague has granted the HBO Bachelor programme of International Hospitality Management (IHM) in Leeuwarden a positive evaluation. The accreditation testing to which the programme was subjected this spring demonstrated that IHM scored well in no less than seventeen points and that it obtained a sufficient score in four points. This provides the programme with an exceptionally high score that by far exceeds the national average for programmes accredited until now. Adjunct Chairman Klaas-Wybo van der Hoek of the Executive Board of CHN University Netherlands (CHN), is quite pleased about the result. ,,It is fantastic that we obtained such a high score. The high score was not only in the area of internationalisation but it was also a reward for our efforts to improve the quality of education.¿¿ IHM Leeuwarden is also highly appreciated by the students. Last year, IHM obtained a top position in the poll regarding the appreciation for educational programmes organised by the Elsevier magazine. Van der Hoek thinks that NVAO¿s positive accreditation demonstrates that the innovations that were introduced by the school were worth the effort. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

Holland is 4th richest EU nation

If the average EU national had EUR 100 to spend, the average Belgian national would have EUR 118 at their disposal, statistics bureau Eurotsat. Eurostat said in terms of disposable wealth, Belgians were ranked 6th, newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws' reported. However, that figure hides regional differences. The provinces of Wallonian Brabant and Flemish Brabant and every other Flemish province are above the EU average. The remaining Wallonian provinces languish below the EU average. Eurostat ranks EU member states according to purchasing power per resident, a relative measuring stick for disposable wealth. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

ABN AMRO provides Ђ50,000 for scholarships and coaching

ABN AMRO is making five scholarships available, each worth Ђ10,000, for students looking to study at Nyenrode Business Universiteit this coming academic year. This makes the bank the largest participant in Nyenrode’s scholarship program. To be eligible for the scholarships and coaching by the bank’s management, candidates must write a short essay and upon selection give a brief presentation in front of a jury. The five winning students will receive the contribution once they have met all the conditions of Nyenrode’s scholarship program, including the university’s selection at the gate procedure. To celebrate the business university’s sixtieth anniversary, Nyenrode is making a total of sixty scholarships available for both Dutch and international students. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

Internationals give CHN University a High Score

CHN achieved an excellent score in an international poll among 29 universities and colleges geared to attracting many English-speaking foreign students. In the poll, organised by the English market research agency I-graduate, the two hundred internationals studying at CHN gave the professional university a final score of 80%. The results are the first of a global benchmarking covering mainly universities and colleges from Great-Britain, the United States and Australia. The emphasis is on English-language academic education. In the Netherlands, aside from CHN, Leiden University participated in the international benchmarking poll. According to CHN's international marketing coordinator, Fotine Zijlstra, CHN is apparently able to successfully compete with the most renowned universities in England, such as Cambridge and Brunel. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news

Foreign doctors are leaving, members of Parliament warn

Members of the three coalition government parties asked Health Minister Hans Hoogervorst to prevent foreign doctors leaving the Netherlands for Britain and Germany. The complaint mainly relates to doctors who have been granted asylum in the Netherlands. Many find it almost impossible to get work here despite an expected shortage in the years ahead because of complicated rules and a long registration system. A new policy was introduced last year but MPs say it has only made the problem worse. Hoogervorst said it is too early to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news