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Graduation Symposium High Expectations: Let’s do it!

News 24 April 2025

If lecturers demonstrate the high expectations principle in teaching, this will contribute to equal opportunities and student success. Not surprisingly, the use of high expectations in teaching is included in the Strategic Agenda of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. The research group Didactics of High Expectations offers training courses in didactic coaching to help study programmes implement high expectations. This spring, the first group of internal didactic coaching trainers graduated. This was celebrated with a graduation symposium: ‘High Expectations, let's do it!’

Inaugural reading Mariëtte Lusse: Opportunities for children growing up in poverty

News 24 April 2025

Professor Mariëtte Lusse carefully chose the date for her inaugural reading: 17 April, declared Children's Poverty Day by the National Fund for Children’s Aid. A day to pay special attention to the situation and future of children growing up in poverty in the Netherlands.

This was the Day of the Future Makers: Smart & Social Fest 2025

News 23 April 2025

The knowledge event of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences was about digital transition. That is what you may call our Day of the Future Makers: Smart & Social Fest 2025. It took place in a well-filled Keilepand at M4H, just before Easter. This day full of keynotes and inspiring interactive break-out sessions focused on how we as individuals and professionals can contribute to a future in which digital innovations help people, our society and our living environment move forward.