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Qualitative issues of planning in a Dutch university

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During the past years government measures related to retrenchment have urged the Dutch universities to change their planning process in order to increase flexibility and to account for differences in quality. Two important procedures carried out in this context are now in a final stage: an external review of research programs and the restructuring of educational programs. The results of these operations are analyzed, with emphasis on their impact for program quality. The paper also discusses the consequences of these results for the planning process.

For even as in the business of life a man's disposition and the secret workings of his mind and affections are better discovered when he is in trouble than at other times; so likewise the secrets of nature reveal themselves more readily under the vexations of art than when they go their own way.

Francis Bacon,Novum Organon (1620)

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  1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Bas Savenije & Christ Otten

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Savenije, B., Otten, C. Qualitative issues of planning in a Dutch university. Res High Educ 24, 35–46 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00973741

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