Battling universitiesTU Delft students and researchers can take part in the annual Academic Prize competition, with a first-place award of 100,000 euros going to the team that submits scientific research that is accessible to the widest possible public.
Teams from 14 Dutch universities are eligible for the competition. A jury will review the submissions and select the best for a short-list of competitors. The competition begins on 1 December 2005. Only one team from each university will short-listed. The winner will be announced on 1 June 2006.
Village mentality
Dutch universities aren’t doing enough to promote international mobility and universities suffer from a “village mentality”, says Hanneke Teekens, director of Nuffic (Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education). Moreover, Teekens says, universities aren’t providing the statistics needed to properly manage the internationalization process. Unlike universities in Germany and France, Dutch universities are not legally required to publish information about international student mobility. “This makes it impossible to get a clear overview of internationalization process,” Teekens says. “The only statistics we have to work with are those for the number of international academic grants we administer, but that only represents a small part of actual international student mobility in higher education.” Nuffic is calling for a new regulation that would require universities to make public information about international mobility. This information would then be published in an annual report. Teekens: “It’s strange for us to hear at the start of every academic year that the Netherlands must attract ‘more’ foreign students, when nobody actually knows for sure how many foreign students are already here.”
Battling universities
TU Delft students and researchers can take part in the annual Academic Prize competition, with a first-place award of 100,000 euros going to the team that submits scientific research that is accessible to the widest possible public. Teams from 14 Dutch universities are eligible for the competition. A jury will review the submissions and select the best for a short-list of competitors. The competition begins on 1 December 2005. Only one team from each university will short-listed. The winner will be announced on 1 June 2006.
Village mentality
Dutch universities aren’t doing enough to promote international mobility and universities suffer from a “village mentality”, says Hanneke Teekens, director of Nuffic (Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education). Moreover, Teekens says, universities aren’t providing the statistics needed to properly manage the internationalization process. Unlike universities in Germany and France, Dutch universities are not legally required to publish information about international student mobility. “This makes it impossible to get a clear overview of internationalization process,” Teekens says. “The only statistics we have to work with are those for the number of international academic grants we administer, but that only represents a small part of actual international student mobility in higher education.” Nuffic is calling for a new regulation that would require universities to make public information about international mobility. This information would then be published in an annual report. Teekens: “It’s strange for us to hear at the start of every academic year that the Netherlands must attract ‘more’ foreign students, when nobody actually knows for sure how many foreign students are already here.”
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