NHL Stenden University investigated for fraud and corruption - TNE Qatar Campus

The Netherlands higher education inspectorate is investigating Stenden University of Applied Sciences for exam-fraud at its Qatar campus.

According to an article in the Dutch newspaper NRC, The university is accused of corrupt staff, missing administration and exam and assessment fraud.

All universities in the Netherlands have independent exam boards or examination commissions, whose task it is to guard the quality and integrity of examinations and degrees awarded at Dutch higher education institutions. Reports show that the exam commissions at Stenden University already informed its executive board as early as February 2017 that they had no faith in the organisation and quality and integrity of the education offered at the ...

"Don't be Too Shy. Your Confidence will Inspire Confidence in Your Employer"

What do Dutch employers expect when they recruit international talent for internships or jobs?

We asked Andries Grul, the export manager of Royal Talens, an international company based in Apeldoorn, who recently employed Wittenborg MBA student Vikram Athavale as an intern for 5 months.

Royal Talens is more than 100 years old and renowned around the world for its high quality art products. In fact, they are so highly esteemed that all of the paint used in the 2018 Oscar-nominated movie Loving Vincent – the world’s first fully painted feature film – was from Royal Talens, a company of around 300 employees worldwide, of whom about 225 are based in Apeldoorn.

Why was Grul interested in hiring an international student from Wittenborg? “I ...

"I love Dutch work culture - they are all about getting the job done."

When you meet Indian student Chayan (ChiChi) Taldar he does not look like he has a care in the world. Full of humour with lots of friends, he works part-time as a bartender in Apeldoorn and comes from a family of hoteliers. 

What most people don’t know about Chayan is that he was diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1 when he was a 12-year old boy, yet he has not allowed that to stop him from studying abroad in the Netherlands and from living a full, active life. 

Take for instance last summer. While most students were enjoying the holidays, Chayan used the time off to train as a bartender at the European Bartender School in Greece. That allowed him to find a job at De Professor, a bar in Apeldoorn. In fact, he has also worked here as a ...

General Management Most Popular MBA Specialisation for New Students

Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences welcomed its first group of new students for 2019 this week, starting them off with a tight schedule of orientation week activities before classes start on Monday. The group hails from 16 different countries: Vietnam, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mexico, India, the Philippines, Iran, Zimbabwe, Colombia, China, Afghanistan, Libya, South Korea and Pakistan.

This February saw a slight increase in the number of intakes compared to last year, said Wittenborg's admission officer, Yanti Setawian. Wittenborg's chair of the executive board, Peter Birdsall, said in January that after a phenomenal growth of 22% in the student population last year, Wittenborg will seek to maintain its current administrative apparatus in 2019 along with modest growth. 

New Students Make "Better ...

"The Netherlands is a world-class country in terms of sport"

Barely 6 months after starting with his MSc in Sport Business Management at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Costa Rican student Rodrigo Ayarza, has found an internship with Dutch football club, NEC Nijmegen. Though he loves staying in the Netherlands and admires Dutch efficiency in service delivery, he misses Costa Rica’s warm weather, the beaches, his dog and the typical breakfast there gallo pinto – the ingredients of which he can reel off in meticulous order.

Rodrigo, how come you have both Dutch and Costa Rican citizenship?
I have Dutch citizenship thanks to my grandmother. She left the Netherlands as a child and went to Chile with her mother and 5 siblings. In Chile she met my grandfather and they went to Costa Rica with their children, ...

Deputy Mayor of Apeldoorn Urges Graduates to be "Environmental Ambassadors"

The latest group of Bachelor and Master students from Wittenborg University were elated when they received their diplomas at the 2019 Winter Graduation Ceremony on Friday. They were joined by the first group of teachers to receive their Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

Graduates was accompanied by friends and family to celebrate with them. Some flew in specially for the occasion like in the case of IBA student Tianyi Zhou from China who brought along her mother and grandmother for support. The group of graduates consisted of 9 Master of Science students, 1 MBA student and 19 Bachelor (IBA) students in addition to 5 Foundation Phase students and 4 Exchange students ...

Dutch Foreign Ministry Soothes British Students' Fears Over Brexit

British students at Dutch institutions of higher education need not fear that the favorable conditions under which they are currently studying will change abruptly if no Brexit agreement is reached by the time the UK leaves the EU on 29 March.  

The Dutch ministry of foreign affairs gave this assurance in a letter addressed to parliament the past week. “Current British students can continue their studies under the same terms, but it will change,” the ministry warned.  “Cabinet intends to ensure all British citizens who are living in the Netherlands on the leave-date, will be able to stay under the same conditions as other EU citizens. Those who start their study after the date, will be treated as international students.” This means British students could be charged ...