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Educational Policy and Advice

Educational Policy and Advice

Educational Policy and Advice is a department of the Student and Educational Affairs Department. This department is responsible for the development, advice and implementation of the university-wide educational policy, quality assurance and various educational evaluations.

Teams

The department of Educational Policy and Advice consists of three teams:

  • Educational Policy
  • Educational Assessments, Examination Analysis and Institutional Research (OTIR)
  • VU Network for Teaching & Learning (VU NT&L)

Educational Policy

The Educational Policy Team has an external task: representing VU Amsterdam in national policy consultations, and an internal task: supporting the Executive Board and the faculties in drawing up, implementing and evaluating education policy. Based on the institutional plan and external developments, working groups and projects are initiated on current policy dossiers. In addition, the Educational Policy Team supports faculties in matters such as intake policy, study advice, study success, language policy, educational innovation and IT, test policy, student guidance, pre-masters, joint degrees and quality improvement of education.

Educational quality and quality assurance

University-wide support for (the supervision of) the quality of education is provided by the department of Education Policy and Advice. The department supervises the external process of visitations, accreditations and TNOs (Toets Nieuwe Opleiding) at the institutional level and provides support at the faculty level. The department also directs the process of strengthening internal quality assurance, for example by conducting mid-term reviews of study programmes.

Educational Policy and Advice coordinates and offers support for these 3 instruments for strengthening educational quality (care):

1) drawing up a self-evaluation report

2) Carrying out trial visits

3) Carrying out a mid-term review

The department, in cooperation with other services and departments, provides key figures and formats that are used for the P&C cycle. Educational Policy and Advice also provides general support and advice to the faculties on internal and external educational quality assurance.

OTIR

To improve the quality of education, the Educational Assessments, Examination Analysis and Institutional Research Team (OTIR) supports various educational evaluations: course and curriculum evaluations and the National Student Survey (NSE in Dutch). In addition, OTIR supports the faculties in the quality assurance of examinations, and gives advice on drawing up the examination policy, setting up examinations and analysing the multiple choice questions. The PDCA cycle itself takes place at the faculties; OTIR's services focus on supporting the evaluation of the education provided.

OTIR also plays an important role in analysing and improving the policy implemented, by analysing various data files that have become available from the Student Analytics project.

What does Student and Educational Affairs (SOZ) do?

The department ensures that VU Amsterdam runs like a well-oiled machine and that VU students have a good time studying. SOZ operates both openly and behind the scenes to ensure that studying at univeristy is both a carefree and unforgettable experience for our students.

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