BASINS pilot:BASINS pilot:Methodology applied Methodology applied

for single accreditationfor single accreditation

Fred Mulder (NVAO)

Graz, 10 June 2010

Criteria: general

Backbone common to all NVAO frameworks:

(1) Aims and objectives

(2) Curriculum

(3) Staff

(4) Services

(5) Internal quality assurance system

(6) Results

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Criteria*: Research Master’s• Students spend up to a whole year performing

hands-on research. Master theses are of a very high standard.

• Embedded in research departments of proven very good to outstanding quality.

• Admission is highly selective.

Procedure: Research Master’s

• NVAO & Royal NL Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Permanent Assessment Committees

• Application File: SER

• Questions & Answers; Additional Sources

• “Site Visit”

• Advisory Assessment Report: + or –

• Decision NVAO Board: + or -4

Research Master Review 2007The Exploration of a New Domain

BASINS: accreditation required?

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Consortium: full members

Netherlands: yes, May 2011

Norway: no

France: no

Consortium: associate members

Hungary: yes, October 2015

Germany: yes, in future

France: no

BASINS “site visit” 120510the permanent committee

Prof. dr. ir. Hein de Baar – chair, NL

Prof. dr. Tom Veldkamp – member, NL

Prof. dr. Rien Herber – member, NL

Prof. dr. Gerard Govers – member, FL

Heleen Cousijn, MSc – student member, UK

Fred Mulder, MSc – secretary, NL/FL

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BASINS “site visit” 120510others present (pilot)

Prof. dr. László Szarka – “participant”, HU

Teresa Sánchez – observer, FR

Kaja Braathen – observer, NL/FL

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Tentative evaluation:Diversity within Jointness

1. Research Master’s: Netherlands only → accreditation as RM irrelevant in partner countries.

2. In the Netherlands, accreditation of RMs differs from the accreditation of other degree programmes.

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