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Decision of 15 July 2013 laying down detailed rules for an experiment to improve the quality and effectiveness of higher education by extending the power to issue a binding opinion (Decision) (Decision No 1532013). experiment extension binding study advice)
We Willem-Alexander, at the grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc.
On the nomination of Our Minister of Education, Culture and Science, of 6 May 2013, no. WJZ/507642 (10247), Management Committee and Legal Affairs, acting on behalf of our Minister for Economic Affairs;
Having regard to Article 1.7a, first and second paragraphs, of the Law on Higher Education and Scientific Research ;
The Department for the Advisory Board of the State heard (opinion of 20 June 2013, No W05.13.0130/I);
Having regard to the further report of Our Minister of Education, Culture and Science, of 11 July 2013, No WJZ/ 528896 (10247), Management Committee and Legal Affairs, released on behalf of our Minister for Economic Affairs;
Have found good and understand:
For the purpose of this Decision:
b. Our Minister: Our Minister of Education, Culture and Science, and in so far as it concerns the institutions with training in the fields of agriculture and natural environment, the Minister for Economic Affairs;
c. Higher education: education as referred to in Article 1.1 (b) of the Act ;
ed. setting: university, college or philosophical university as intended Article 1.2 (a) of the Act ;
e. Setting-board: College of directors of an institution as referred to in subparagraph (d);
f. Training: Full-time or dual bachelor's training as intended Article 7.3a in conjunction with Article 7.7 of the Act ;
g. designated training: training designated in the sense of Article 5, third paragraph, part a ;
h. experimental BSA: Coherent package of measures in the sense of Article 2 , consisting of the devices specified in Article 5, third paragraph, part b , and the powers specified in: Article 6 and 7 .
i. Participating institution: institution participating in the experiment by the introduction of the experimental BSA;
The aim of the experiment is to encourage students to complete their training within the nominal period of study by means of a coherent set of measures to promote study progress, which will improve the quality and efficiency of students. the improvement of higher education.
This Decision derogates from Article 7.8b of the Act .
The experiment lasts from 1 September 2013 until 31 August 2019.
1 Institutions may participate in the experiment in so far as the total number of students falling within the scope of the Decision does not exceed 10% of the total number of students enrolled in higher education on 1 October 2012.
2 An institution is not allowed to introduce the experimental BSA to an education, for which there is no similar second level of training in national terms.
3 An institution board of a participating institution shall be required to:
designate the training courses for which the experiment will apply;
b. to have facilities to promote study progress in the designated training;
c. to operate such forms of study which, in reasonable terms, relate to the nature of the training and the level of provision in question; and
d. to provide information to students and prospective students in a timely manner on the participation and establishment of the experiment which will enable them to make a proper assessment of their impact prior to the registration;
4 Under the provisions referred to in paragraph 3 (b), the following shall be understood in any case:
a. appropriate educational intensity and intensive study guidance;
b. High quality of teachers; and
c. Counseling by the Institution Board upon reinstating wholly or partially rejected students.
1 The institution board of a participating institution may, during the whole of the first year of registration, reject a student for a designated training and terminate his tender, in the event that the student has not made a single exam.
2 The Articles 7.8b, third paragraph, third party, final sentence, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth paragraphs , and 7.42, third member, of the Act , shall be applied to the rejection mutatis mutandis.
1 The institution board of a participating institution shall deliver an opinion to each student who has completed the propedeutic examination of a designated training course at the end of the year of study on the continuation of the training of the institution of the institution. his study.
2 The institution board of a participating institution may attach to the opinion:
a. a rejection for the training or any part thereof; or
b. A limitation on the validity of examinations made by the student following the completion of the propedeutic examination.
3 A student may be rejected for training up to the first year of registration after the propedeutic exam has been obtained.
4 In higher vocational education, a student may be rejected for part of the course of training in the second year of registration after the propedeutic exam has been obtained.
5 Limiting the validity of exams may take place from the second year of registration after the propedeutic exam has been obtained.
6 The Articles 7.8b, third paragraph, second to last sentence, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth members , and 7.42, third member, of the Act , the powers referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 of this paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis.
1 In the case of a decision as referred to in Article 6, first paragraph , and Article 7, first and second paragraphs, parts a and b , the student's personal circumstances are respected.
2 The personal circumstances are:
a. disease of the person concerned;
b. Physical, sensory or other impairment of the person concerned;
c. pregnancy of the person concerned;
d. special family-circumstances;
e. membership, including the Presidency, of:
1. in universities: the university council, faculty council, the body set up under the participation scheme, meant by universities. Article 9.30, third paragraph , below Article 9.51, second paragraph, of the Act (i) the management of an education or training committee, and the membership of the board of a foundation which, according to its statutes, is intended to exploit the provision of facilities belonging to the student facilities or to the provision of services, to the judgement of the institution's administration in the light of the task of the equivalent institution;
2. in the case of colleges: the participation council, the subcouncil, the student commission or the training committee;
f. Other in the schemes specified in the Articles 7.8b, sixth paragraph (9), fifth paragraph, of the law by the institution of the institution to specify circumstances in which the person concerned is engaged in activities in the context of the organisation and administration of the institution's affairs;
g. membership of the board of a student body of any size with full jurisdiction, or of a comparable organization of any size, in whom the representation of the general social interest in the foreground It is a state that actually carries out its activities. The institution board may lay down detailed rules on the number of board members, which shall be eligible for each year of study at the highest, and shall be such as to which boards of directors may be eligible;
h. other conditions laid down by the institution's management; and
i. circumstances other than those referred to in parts a to h which would result in a lack of fairness in nature if they are not involved in the decision of the institution.
1 In the education and examendment scheme, Article 7.13 of the Act , shall be determined by means of provisions and forms of study referred to in: Article 5, third paragraph, parts b and c , and the detailed rules, for the implementation of the Articles 6 to 8 . The institution's participation body shall have advisory rights in respect of provisions, study standards and detailed rules.
2 The College of Appeal for the examinations, intended in Article 7.60 of the Act , according to Article 7.61 of the Act , competent in respect of acts as referred to in the Articles 6, 1st paragraph , and 7, first and second members .
3 In scientific education, the dean is intended: Article 9.12 of the Act , and in higher vocational education, the setting board or body to which these tasks have been transferred is as intended Article 10.3 of the Act , in charge of the implementation of the Articles 5 to 8 .
1 Setting up of participating institutions shall carry out the experimental BSA in the course of training cohortsgewise.
2 An experimental BSA can only be introduced from the years of study 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 during a training course.
1 The institution board of an institution which intends to take part in the experiment provides written information to our Minister:
a. the corresponding Article 5, third paragraph , measures taken;
b. the manner in which the institution board has the powers, named in the Articles 6 and 7 , the aim of which is to exercise;
c. the total number of students expected to inflow from a training course to be allocated; and
d. the manner in which the results of the experimental BSA will be followed by the participating institution for the purpose of annual reporting and final report, intended in Article 12 .
2 Our minister shall receive the information referred to in paragraph 1 at the latest:
a. 1 June 2013 of training courses in which the institution intends to start the experimental BSA with effect from the 2013-2014 academic year; and
b. 1 April 2014 of training courses in which the institution is intended to start the experimental BSA as of the 2014-2015 academic year.
1 The setting board of a participating institution shall report annually in the report referred to in Article 2.9 of the Act , on the results of the implementation of the experimental BSA, including:
a. the extent to which the devices, intended Article 5, third paragraph, part b , present and, if not yet at final level, improved;
b. the number of students per training who has received a warning for a decision as intended Article 6, first paragraph , and 7, second paragraph ;
c. the number of students against whom a decision has been taken as intended Article 6, first paragraph , below Article 7, second paragraph ;
d. the extent to which the study results of the students referred to in subparagraph (b) are abbreviated to the pilot form of the experimental BSA.
2 Desceding shall provide the institution board with further information to our Minister.
3 If the findings give rise to this, the experimental BSA may be amended at a participating institution, after consultation with Our Minister.
4 The institution board of a participating institution shall participate in the monitoring by our Minister of the results of the experiment.
5 Before 1 January 2018, the institution board of a participating institution shall issue a final report, which shall include the findings with respect to the implementation of the experimental BSA. In each case, the final report deals with what is stated in the Article 13, second and third paragraphs .
1 Our Minister evaluates in mid-2018 the experiment on the basis of the results of the experimental BSA's as included in the final reports of the institutions, which took part in the experiment.
2 Our Minister evaluates the experiment on the basis of the following criteria:
a. the number of students who complete the training within the nominal study duration, the number of students who have been out of study and no other training started and the number of students who have started another training;
(b) the extent to which the effectiveness of the institution has improved;
(c) the extent to which the quality of education has improved;
d. the extent to which the experimental BSA has affected improved quality and efficiency.
3 The evaluation shall cover, in any case, the following aspects:
a. the experience gained from the provisions of Article 5 , as well as their effects,
(b) experience gained from the powers exercised by the participating institutions in accordance with Articles 6 and 7 and its effects;
c. the views of teachers, setting board and study staff and students ' views on the aspects referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b); and
d. the behavioural effects on students as a result of the experiment.
4 Our Minister may be assisted by one of our Minister independent experts in the course of the evaluation.
Our Minister may decide that the experiment will be terminated in full or in part by one or more training courses or in one or more participating institutions, if:
(a) an institution shall not comply with the provisions of this Decision;
(b) the result of the experiment has been to cover all training of the same species under this Decision, nationwide; or
c. the experiment for a reason other than mentioned in subparagraph b has the effect of threatening the accessibility of one or more training courses.
In relation to a student who signs after 1 May in a course of training other than the one in which he was originally registered, but who can prove that the subsequent notification is the result of an end of the registration on the basis of a Rejection as intended Article 7, second paragraph, part a , the setting board may:
(a) do not refuse to tender for the training in question; and
(b) decide that it is compulsory to take part in the study activities, which is to be carried out in accordance with Article 7.31b, First paragraph, of the Act .
This decision is referred to as: Decision on the adoption of binding study advice.
1 Except for Article 15 , this Decision shall enter into force as from the day following the date of issuance of the Official Gazette, in which it is placed and shall operate back to 1 May 2013.
2 If Article I, Section AP, of the bill submitted by royal message of 18 January 2013 to amend the Law on Higher Education and Scientific Research and some other Acts related to the implementation of various measures, announced in the Strategic Agenda Higher Education, Research and Science (Law Quality in diversity higher education) (Kamerpieces 33 519) to law is, or becomes elevated, and enters into force, comes in Article 15 in effect at the same time.
3 This Decision shall expire with effect from 1 September 2019.
Charges and orders that this Decision will be placed in the Official Journal by means of the note of explanatory note accompanying it.
Wassenaar, 15 July 2013
William-Alexander
The Minister of Education, Culture and Science,
M. Bussemaker
The Minister for Economic Affairs,
H.G.J. Kamp
Published the twenty-sixth of July 2013The Secretary of State for Security and Justice,
F. Teeven
