Yvonne Janssen and Sandra Baaijens, lecturers at Avans School of International Studies (ASIS), will head to Lesbos this autumn to help refugees. ‘The refugee crisis made a deep impression on us.’ The lecturers will go to Lesbos from 13 to 21 October, representing the organization Because We Carry, where they will work with volunteers from around […]
Dutch students who take an English-taught study programme rarely interact with international students outside of their classes. We asked three Avansstudents why this is the case. Bas van Kalmthout First-year Finance & Control student, Breda “Our English is quite good, but we always tend to talk Dutch to one another, even when there are students […]
Students are not happy about the level of internationalisation at many universities of applied sciences, according to the Dutch National Student Survey 2017. And Avans is no exception. “A score of 3.03 is unworthy of Avans”, says Executive Board Member Jacomine Ravensbergen. Last year, the Dutch National Student Survey (NSS) included four questions about internationalisation. […]
Yvonne Kanters starts on August 1st as dean of the Avans School of International Studies (ASIS). At this moment, Kanters is dean of the Utrecht Business School (faculty of International Business) and the Faculty of Marketing and Commerce. She is chair of Entrepreneurship@HU, a university-wide programme to promote entrepreneurship and she is chairing the restructuring […]
What do international students miss about home? And which things about Dutch student culture have left them baffled? With a sense of nostalgia, three students talk about phenomenal tacos, spontaneous encounters and spaghetti ice cream. Alex Chiodo (Italy) Fourth-year Environmental Science for Sustainable Energy and Technology (ESSET) student, Breda Living in the Netherlands for two-and-a-half […]
A thinktank that includes property developers called for more international students in the Netherlands. According to the thinktank this would result in a booming economy and create tens of thousands of extra jobs in the large cities. International students are good for the economies of student cities all-round, states thinktank The Class of 2020 in […]
Second-year International Business students Alina Rieckman, Lisa Schnelte, Patrik Kurilla, Max de la Croix are in Guatamela to compete in the NIBS Worldwide Case Competition. In the Worldwide Case Competition teams from Finland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Rumania, Ireland, Engeland, China, Guatemala, Canada and the United States compete against each other on tackling real-world business challenges. […]
Het verdwijnen van de basisbeurs heeft niet voor een leegloop in het hbo gezorgd. Het aantal eerstejaars studenten is met 5,5 procent toegenomen, en niet alleen dankzij de buitenlandse studenten. Afgelopen september zijn bijna 107 duizend nieuwe studenten aan een hbo-opleiding begonnen, blijkt uit de definitieve cijfers. Dat komt overeen met de eerste schattingen van […]
The number of international students in Dutch higher education has doubled in 10 years’ time, rising from 41,000 to 81,000. However, new figures have shown that most graduates who settle in the Netherlands do so in the Randstad area. For years now, Maastricht University has been the champion among universities and universities of applied sciences […]
Hoe zorg je ervoor dat internationale alumni Nederland niet direct verlaten? Het Holland Alumni Network, dat vandaag wordt gelanceerd, moet ze helpen een netwerk op te bouwen. Goed voor hun baankansen en voor de economie. Aan internationale studenten geen gebrek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten en hogescholen: het zijn er 112 duizend, meer dan elf procent […]