From March 23 to 27, 2026, CINOP and HAMK (Finland) conducted an intensive training week in Nacala (Mozambique) as part of the VECRA-MOZ project. The training was held at ADPP IP Nacala and brought together teachers, project partners, and stakeholders to work on the further development of climate-resilient agricultural education. The training began with a…
At the end of March I was keynote speaker at the CvI conference in The Hague. This presentation gave rise to an interesting discussion about the direction our education should take in order to meet the challenges of the future. Gap between education and the labour market The core of my story consisted of three…
In the FD paper of 14 February 2019, Hella Hueck and Robert Went wonder whether the speed of technological change in recent years has really been so much greater than in previous industrial revolutions, as so many publications recently suggest. They largely regard this enormous speed as a myth, as does the need for companies…
Soon the second article will appear on Scienceguide.nl in which we, together with a number of administrators from the hbo (Fokke Aukema -politieacademie, Henk Hagoort -Windesheim and Dick Schweitzer -Saxion part-time) think about what it means to organise flexible education in which the student is both a client and a partner at the same time….
At the World Economic Forum in Davos at the end of January, the experts agreed: we are currently training students the wrong way. With education systems that have hardly changed in the last hundred years. So what does work? Turning the system around for the most part: education that starts with specific skills (‘on the…
Three-and-a-half years ago, in 2015, the first Erasmus+ VET Mobility Charters were awarded to 23 upper secondary vocational education institutions. The Charter is a quality mark that is awarded by the Erasmus+ National Agency to upper secondary vocational education institutions that have made internationalisation a priority and have integrated it into their policy agendas. The…
