2.6 Quality assurance in education
The university vision of quality assurance has the following principles: Continuous Improvement, Transparency, and Cooperative Learning. Monitoring, control, and assurance are jointly structured through cooperation between Schools and the Executive Board at the administrative level; between the various support services at the implementation level; and by the Examination Boards at the assurance level. This cooperation ensures that the university functions as a learning organization where the quality of education is paramount. This is also evident from the results of student evaluations and the discussions that take place within program committees, sounding board groups, and student panels. Among other things, as part of the grade registration audit, additional attention was paid in 2022 to the standardization of examinations and the method of registration.
In 2022, the NVAO decided positively on the request to maintain the accreditations of the Joint Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, the Joint Master’s degree in Data Science and Entrepreneurship and the Research Master’s in Linguistics and Communication Sciences. Furthermore, the NVAO determined a positive outcome for the cross check with practice of the Special Feature Small-Scale and Intensive Education of the Bachelor’s program in Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition, the Teacher Training programs received a positive decision with conditions. On the basis of an improvement plan, they are working to meet these conditions. A review panel visited many of TiSEM's programs in the summer of 2022 for combined NVAO and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. In this, TiSEM collaborated with the Tilburg Institute for Academic Studies (TIAS). The feedback from the panel was very positive. Meanwhile, the positive decision of the AACSB has already been received, the decision of the NVAO will follow in the course of 2023.
