Zone Better connection to the job market

Results focus group Hybrid Learning Environments

Posted on February 10, 2021 at 10:34 am.

Written by kiki

On 1 February, the Better connection to the job market zone met in a focus group with various participants about hybrid learning environments.

Report Data-driven connection labour market

Posted on January 21, 2021 at 9:00 am.

Written by kiki

How can you better use data for the connection between training and the professional field? You can read this in the report Data-driven connection to the labour market, based on the manifesto Vrije Zones.

Job market connection zone starts focus group and is looking for participants

Posted on December 16, 2020 at 9:00 am.

Written by nicole

The Better Connection to the Job Market is starting a focus group for the validation of recommendations to organise the collaboration between education and the professional field. Would you like to participate in the focus group?

COVID-19 crisis culture shock

Posted on May 13, 2020 at 2:38 pm.

Written by Yvonne Florissen

It was 2018. A call for action. Digitisation is everywhere, but higher education is too slow. Accelerate? Yes of course! That is why we all joined the national Acceleration Plan. It is time to work on ICT in education. Lecturers and students must develop new skills, we must boost flexibility and must set up learning environments in which education and the professional field can easily find each other. We do that together, because together we can do more! We got to know each other, made plans, developed guidelines, developed tools, frameworks, and did experiments.

Looking back at 2019: Zone Job market education

Posted on April 1, 2020 at 9:10 am.

Written by Yvonne Florissen

The first year of the Acceleration Plan is over. In a series of interviews, we look back with the leaders of the zones on how their zone has fared in 2019. In this edition: Caroline van de Molen (Saxion University of Applied Sciences), leader of the zone Better connection to the job market.

New team leader zone Job market connection

Posted on December 18, 2019 at 9:47 am.

Written by Yvonne Florissen

Earlier this year, we unfortunately had to say goodbye to Ellen van den Berg as leader of the zone Job market connection due to personal circumstances. With the departure of Ellen, the Steering Group of the Acceleration Plan started looking for a successor. We are pleased to announce that Caroline van de Molen, director at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, has been appointed as the new leader of the zone with immediate effect.

New team leader zone EdTech

Posted on November 18, 2019 at 1:31 pm.

Written by Yvonne Florissen

With the departure of Timo Kos to Saxion University of Applied Sciences, where he will start as member of the Executive Board, the Steering Group of the Acceleration Plan has searched for a new team leader for the zone EdTech. We are pleased to announce that Jelgar de Wilde, from Inholland University of Applied Sciences, has been appointed as the new leader of the zone starting on 1 January 2020.

Interview series: Lonneke Brands

Posted on October 18, 2019 at 8:21 am.

Written by Yvonne Florissen

To celebrate the launch of the new Acceleration Plan website, we did a series of interviews with members of the Acceleration Plan about their experiences in higher education. Today: Lonneke Brands.