Sunday, 30, April, 2006 (02, Rabi` al-Thani, 1427)
Dutch Knowledge and Professional Skills
Arab News
The quality of research conducted at the Dutch research universities is high - even from an international point of view. This is true both of the number of scientific publications and the impact they have and of the number of patent applications. Dutch research universities also achieve a very high score in European education and research programs.
Important issues in the field of international cooperation are how to reduce poverty and the widening gap between rich and poor countries, the European knowledge society and how to increase Europe's competitiveness.
With spending on education accounting for 4.7 percent of its GNP, the Netherlands is in tenth place worldwide and with impact scores of scientific publications it is in second place, right behind the United States.
David Bohmert, adviser on International Affairs to the sector organization representing the Dutch research universities, the VSNU, knows the figures: "To universities, international cooperation means more than recruiting students from abroad. Our mission is top quality in higher education, scientific research knowledge valorization, the exploitation of academic knowledge worldwide."
Talent
Institutional cooperation is very much in the ascendancy, as in Unica, a network of 39 metropolitan universities which was established in 1990 to promote mutual cooperation and the integration of the universities from the new EU member-states. According to Bohmert, "The consolidation of international cooperation has become the core business of universities."
Knowledge valorization also has a clear social component. For example, the Center for Development Studies at the Gronigen University focuses specifically on cooperating with research universities in developing countries, mainly by training young researchers from these countries. The Mundo Institute at Maastricht, which does a lot of consultancy work for the World Bank, has a similar mission. As Bohmer explains, "It is all about embedding talent in global academic networks. Dutch research universities are aiming for long-term cooperation with other universities on the basis of equality. But they also have a lot to offer governments and industry."
Creativity
The strength of the higher professional education sector - the universities of professional education or hogescholen - lies in the fact that it is closely intertwined with Dutch commerce and industry. Each year about 50,000 theses are completed for businesses.
An increasing number of Chinese and Indonesian students are being asked to carry out market research for Dutch industry in their country of origin. Sectors including the arts, the hospitality industry - Dutch higher professional education is the world market leader in hospitality training consultancy - and training in agriculture have long been internationally oriented.
But now the higher education professional education sector as a whole is making a move towards internationalisation. It is doing so by developing more and more English language programs for international students and by entering into joint ventures with European professional education and research universities. What is new is the export of knowledge about Dutch higher professional education to countries with a fast-growing economy, in which education bears no relation to the world of work.
A good example of this is Vietnam. According to Arian van Staa, head of policy at the HBO Council, the association of Dutch universities of professional education, "The aim of our Vietnam project is to work with the Vietnamese government and eight Vietnamese research and professional education universities to introduce higher professional education in Vietnam. This will give Vietnamese graduates a better grasp of the current issues facing local commerce and industry by improving their entrepreneurship, management qualities and professional skills."
Entrepreneurship
The higher professional education sector also exports Dutch know-how by establishing a campus outside the Netherlands and exploiting its commercial potential. For example, the Christelijke Hogeschool Nederland has campuses in Leeuwarden, Qatar and South Africa. In this way, education and the world of work are always kept in balance.
Van Staa explains: "We are increasingly seeing students at the universities of professional education setting up their own businesses as part of their course of study. In a number of countries, such as Rwanda, Zambia and Vietnam, people want to start using such methods in higher education to improve entrepreneurship and strengthen the SME sector. The Dutch higher professional education." sector is particularly well placed to facilitate these development."
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