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HAN University of Applied Sciences HAN Annual Report 2015 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Content Content Foreword by the Executive Board 5 Introduction 7 1. The institution’s policies 10 Mission and vision 11 Direction and profile 12 Professional learning communities 12 Bildung 13 Centres of expertise 13 Valorisation 14 Internationalisation 14 2. Education 15 Number of students 16 Results of performance targets: education 17 Quality assurance: education 21 Student facilities 23 Internationalisation and student mobility 26 3. Research 28 Links to centres of expertise/development of minors and Masters 31 Quality assurance in research 31 4. Professional practice and the region 32 Centres of expertise 33 Valorisation and entrepreneurship 35 Working and learning 39 2 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Content Masters courses 41 Alumni policy 42 5. Quality is a human product 43 Culture of quality to drive the realisation of our goals 45 Staff and organisation development 48 Professional development and professional culture 49 Absenteeism 52 Employee satisfaction 53 Unemployment benefits and top-up benefits 53 Pay and Conditions Negotiations/Decentralised Employment Conditions Fund 53 6. Operational excellence 55 Information services/ICT 56 Accommodation 57 Implementation of the energy covenant 58 Facility Services 58 Compliance 59 7. Governance 60 HAN’s organisation 61 Planning and control 62 Sector code for good governance of universities of applied sciences 63 Executive Board 64 Supervisory Board 67 Report of the Supervisory Board 70 Participation Council 72 Horizontal and vertical accountability 72 Risk management 73 Financial instruments 76 Public/Private 77 Assessment against enrolment and funding regulations 78 Clarity Memo 79 3 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Content 8. Financial Report 80 Summary financial statements 81 Financing 85 Treasury 85 Continuity section 86 Balance sheets for 2014-2017 88 Statement of operating income and expenditure for 2014-2017 89 Appendix 1 94 A Course offerings 95 B Intake and enrolments per faculty 99 C List of research groups and professors on 31/12/2015 101 D International mobility, figures and trends 105 E Organisation and key figures 2015 120 Appendix 2 127 Results of performance targets HAN Institutional Plan 2012-2016 Knowledge in Interaction A Overview results of objectives and performance targets 128 B Notes on results of HAN Institutional Plan 2012-2016 and performance targets 130 C. Definitions and sources for indicators of HAN Institutional Plan 2012-2016 164 4 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Foreword by the Executive Board Foreword by the Executive Board 2015 was a busy year for higher education: the minister presented a new Strategic Agenda; there were preparations for experiments with part-time education; a new student loans system was launched; adjust- ments were made to legislation on high incomes in the public sector; the student occupation of the University of Amsterdam’s Maagdenhuis led to much discussion on having a say in higher education; the Dutch National Research Agenda was adopted; and much more. Many at our institution watched these events from a safe distance. We did not see this as a problem: our pride and focus should always be, first and fore- most, on providing excellent education and training for our students, most of whom are young and hail from vocational and higher general secondary schools in the region. This was what 2015 was all about for us. And in this respect, we can report many positive developments. With pleasure and pride, we look back on the results in the year under review, including: 1 The high degree to which we achieved the performance targets. 2 The excellent results in the area of our practice-based research. 3 Our healthy financial position. 4 Our leading position in part-time education. 5 The steady improvement in accreditation scores and student satis- faction. 6 The increase in our people’s levels of ambition and the many great innovations in education and research. All these great results have largely been due to the strong motivation of our colleagues, who rally together for the good cause of education and research, have a strong sense of community, and are encouraged by the direction we have chosen. We are particularly pleased with the way in which the atmosphere at our institution has developed. 5 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Foreword by the Executive Board In this respect, the Large Scale Dream, held in the Gelredome on 12 June 2015, was a special day. Thousands of our colleagues and students spent a whole day reflecting in solidarity on the future of teaching and research, on the future of HAN, on trust and the fact that people make the difference, on inspirational partnership, and on what this all means for what we do. It resulted in a short, powerful and jointly produced new institutional plan for 2016-2020. That day is etched in our collective memory. We are aware that we were able to do our work in 2015 in Arnhem and Nijmegen in peace and prosperity. We did not have to flee, we did not face mass redundancies on New Year’s Eve, we worked in well-equipped buildings and we did not have to teach our classes under a bridge, like some in India. There are also areas where we still need to learn and improve. We want to become even better, both in terms of what we do and how we do it. There is now a broad awareness of where we want to go and what this will demand of us. As a board, we are proud of the results, and pleased with the atmosphere and great efforts being made by many at HAN. In the end, it is after all about just one thing: giving our students an unfor- gettable, high-quality education, enriched and deepened with relevant practice-based research. Concerning this latter aim, we were also very successful in 2015. This is clear from the RAAK grants we received, one of which was won as part of the RAAK award for best practice-based research. We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to all our HAN colleagues, students and external partners who contributed to our many achievements in 2015. The Executive Board, Kees Boele, Diana de Jong and Frank Stöteler 6 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Introduction Introduction 7 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Introduction Introduction This year’s annual report is a special report. In this 2015 Annual Report, we account not only for the developments and results of our objectives in the previous year, but also for the entire 2012-2015 period, for which HAN, like other educational institutions, had agreed on performance targets with the Minister of Education, Culture and Science. This annual report thus serves as an important basis for the minister’s final assess- ment of the results of these performance targets. As such, this annual report is especially important for HAN, and it is slightly more detailed than our usual reports. The structure and contents of this annual report are still based on the ‘old’ HAN Institutional Plan 2012-2016, in line with the annual reports of the last three years. In 2015, HAN adopted a new HAN Institutional Plan 2012-2016. This will form the basis for annual reports from the next reporting year onwards. In Chapter 1 we describe the institution’s policies and take a brief look at the new institutional plan. In chapters 2 to 8 we reflect on the events and developments of 2015, and give an account of the results of our ob- jectives and performance targets. The explanatory tables and key figures from chapters 2-8 can be found in Appendix 1. Appendix 2 contains a brief summary of the results of our objectives and performance targets for the period 2012-2015 (with 2011 serving as the baseline). This appendix provides explanatory notes on each aspect regarding the results of the objective and performance target. The ex- planatory notes are preceded by a concise summary of the target, the situation in 2011, the measures taken, the results and our plans for the future. 8 HAN Annual Report 2015 | Introduction This appendix is particularly relevant for the Review Committee’s as- sessment and recommendations to the minister on whether HAN has adequately met its performance targets. 9 HAN Annual Report 2015 | 1. The institution’s policies The institution’s policies 10 HAN Annual Report 2015 | 1. The institution’s policies HAN University of Applied Sciences (HAN) is one of the largest and most prominent universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. The successful synergy between our education and research, profes- sional practice and society has yielded high satisfaction ratings, strong growth figures and increased ties within the region. Our most important objective is to maintain and further optimise this synergy on the basis of quality, responsibility and trust, an objec- tive that we will also continue to pursue in our international educa- tion in the coming years. Mission and vision In 2015, our students, lecturers, staff and external stakeholders made a joint effort to draft and write a new institutional plan for the period 2012-2016. This laid the foundations for our updated mission: HAN’s mission is to qualify, socialise and train students for their future pro- fessional careers, for citizenship, and for producing innovations in a dynam- ic, globalising and complex society. We train students to be self-confident individuals who can realise their own potential and push boundaries, and who are able to innovate in professional practice. This requires an interdis- ciplinary perspective that stimulates learning and innovation. By means of professional learning communities that link education and research, student and professional practice, we aim to maximise personal impact and societal innovation. Two of HAN’s distinguishing characteristics play a key role here: • excellence in the quality, intensity and impact of the relationship be- tween education, research and professional practice, so as to pro- duce well-qualified professionals who are not afraid to explore new paths, who are constantly developing, are socially committed and have a strong moral conscience; • excellence in partnerships within HAN, based on the principle of a ‘culture of quality’: a systematic focus on a) the content and quality 11 HAN Annual Report 2015 | 1.