{"id":149172,"date":"2023-01-25T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=149172"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:36","slug":"inspectorate-critical-of-selective-admission-study-programmes-are-clutching-at-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/01\/25\/inspectorate-critical-of-selective-admission-study-programmes-are-clutching-at-straws\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspectorate critical of selective admission: study programmes are clutching at straws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular study programmes operate selective admission. There aren\u2019t enough places, so only students with sufficient talent and motivation will get in. But how do you pick them out?<\/p>\n

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\u201cCan a shy student become a good product designer?\u201d asks Inspector General Alida Oppers in her foreword to a new report<\/a> about selection. \u201cOr is it right that she has less chance of obtaining a place on a study programme than her extrovert fellow-candidate because she has to demonstrate her motivation at an interview?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Inspectorate of Education is concerned. \u201cWe have seen that study programmes that make selections generally set up and operate their selection procedures with the best of intentions\u201d, says Oppers. \u201cBut everyone devises those procedures in their own way and at their own discretion, without consensus over what constitutes fair and effective selection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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