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The social, political and economical climate is changing rapidly. These changes have been

used to draw up the Erasmus 2013 programme. After intensive deliberations with a range of partners, the EUR has set a course towards 2013. The vision document is our compass

and agenda. The challenge is to make these ambitions come true. In October 2008 the deans and the Executive Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam signed the Erasmus 2013 covenants containing the School-related goals that should be realised by 2013. These goals are of course

related to our mission, vision and strategy. This section contains an overview of the goals in

the covenant EUR 2013 and the progress made towards meeting these goals.

ESE'sroad to 2013

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Education 1:Improve performance of existing education programmesPerformance in the bachelor and master programmes is above the median for comparable organisations. Educational performance is at least at the national average for the relevant educational programmes. By 2013, the average post-BSA (Binding Study Advice) performance of all bachelors’ programmes should be 40% after 4 years and 70% after 6 years. The performance of the IBEB (International bachelor in Economics and Business) bachelor’s degree programme by 2013 should be 60% after 4 years.

Progress: As the BSA was implemented in 2005-2006, there are still no 6-year

post-BSA performance figures available. In cohort 2005-2006, after four years of

studying, the performance at the bachelor level in Economics was 53% and in

Econometrics 54%, far above the aforementioned 40%. Economics and Taxation

(26%) and E&I (14%) are quite a long way under the 40% after four years. Since

IBEB was started in 2006-2007, for this programme only the post-BSA performance

figures after three years are available. This figure is around 35% after three years,

while the rest (32%), approximately half, are still engaged in their studies.

* Quittingone'sstudyisbasedonnotregisteringforthenextacademicyear.Thisisnotfixed data:followingabreakinstudyastudentmightreregisterforfurtheracademicstudies.

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Performance of the bachelor and master students Cohort: 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09

Quitstudies* 279 286 281 270 310 359 338

DoingBSc 33 53 73 89 219 476 614

DoingMSc 47 63 85 110 90

DoingMSc(ReceivedaBSc) 46 68 117 153 119

QuitafterBSc 40 25 26 24 21

ObtainedMSc 297 203 136 61 21

Total 742 698 718 707 780 835 952

Bachelorperformance(%) 52 41 39 34 21

Masterperformance(%) 40 29 19 9 3


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Education 2:Expansion of English language bachelor's programmes offered by 2013All Master’s degree programmes are offered in English; an international project is part of the study programme for at least a quarter of the students; the feasibility of providing at least one other Bachelor’s degree programme in the English language will be investigated.

Progress: Except for the MSc Economics and Taxation, all our master programmes

are offered in English. Annually, an average of approximately 60 ESE students

participated in exchange programmes in the last few years. With the University

conferring 500 to 600 bachelor's or master's degrees each year, that means that

approximately 10% of ESE students participate in exchange programmes. If we

consider the IBEB programme as an international project, then on average, around

15% of the students participate in an international project (calculated over the last

four academic years). In addition, various programmes include study trips; there are

no figures for those included in the educational statistics.

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Throughput Bachelors (%)

Cohort Cohort Cohort Cohort Cohort 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007

3 years 5 7 11 18 21

4 years 22 24 27 34

5 years 37 34 39

6 years 45 41

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Incomingstudents 140 116 147 108 99

Outgoingstudents 66 54 41 73 79

The number of ESE students that went abroad in 2009-2010 increased to 79 students,

a rise of 8% in comparison to 2008-2009. ESE is investigating the possibilities of

offering an International Bachelor programme in Econometrics & Operations

Research at the moment.


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Education 3:Bachelor and master programmes among the Top 3 in the Netherlands and master programmes among the Top 10 in EuropeESE monitors the performance of its lecturers. ESE has at least two research masters that are internationally recognised for their top-level education. The language of instruction for all masters’ programmes will be English. ESE ranks above average in the national educational assessments.

Progress: In 2009 the educational programmes of ESE were assessed. Seven

bachelors’ and master programmes were reviewed by an external committee.

Since 2005-2006, the students' evaluation of education has been carried out via

a questionnaire option in SIN-Online. In 2008-2009 the average response was

47%. ESE employs the following categories for a teacher's score in relation to the

education evaluations:

The teacher's score is the average score based on two items: “The teacher has

explained the material well” and “The teacher made you enthusiastic about the

subject”. The teacher’s score amount to one of the key figures in the appraisal

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Teachers scores Performance brackets Unsatisfactory Moderate Good Very good

BA1andBA2 (0/3) (3/3.5) (3.5/4) (4/5)

BA3andMaster (0/3.25) (3.25/3.75) (3.75/4.25) (4.25/5)

Average course scores per study phase 2006-2009 Bachelor 1 Bachelor 2 Bachelor 3 Master Total

2006-2007 3.70 3.65 3.85 3.97 3.83

2007-2008 3.73 3.67 3.84 3.96 3.84

2008-2009 3.74 3.66 3.96 4.00 3.90


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ESE attaches a great deal of importance to the quality of teaching in its study

programmes. Therefore, all lecturers must have the necessary skills coupled with

experience in teaching. This is why explicit qualification is required for the task of

teaching. For that purpose, a decision was made that all newly employed assistant

professors and associate professors are subject to meeting the basic qualifications

for teaching. Comparing the average course scores per study phase in the recent

years shows that the supervision of the ESE board in relation to the teaching

quality of its Faculty pays of. The average course scores increase each year.

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Education 4:Specific programmes for special studentsBy 2013, ESE will have at least two types of honours programmes for excellent students in the bachelor phase, namely Honours Classes and double degrees. An investigation will be conducted to determine whether, in addition to the research master, it is also possible to make use of Honours Classes in the master phase, and whether Honours Classes can be introduced for VWO (pre-university education) students in collaboration with VWO institutions. The Bachelor Honours Classes have accepted 20 students into the Honours Classes and in 2010 a report will be available with conclusions about the introduction of an Honours Class in the master phase and Honours Classes for VWO students.

Progress: In 2008-2009 ten students were accepted to the PricewaterhouseCoopers

Honours Master. This Honours Master aims to fulfil the needs of excellent master

students in Accounting, Auditing & Control; the programme combines theory

and practice in a unique way and has been developed in close cooperation with

PricewaterhouseCoopers. Seven of these students obtained their masters degree

in 2009. In academic year 2009-2010 the PWC Honours Master accepted thirteen

students. The Honours classes for the VWO students have yet to start.

The Master Class in Actuarial Sciences started with a kick-off in December 2009.

This programme has been developed in cooperation with the Allianz Nederland

Groep. At the moment, we are investigating whether it is possible to start a

Master Honours Classes in Marketing, Operations Research and Economics in

academic year 2010/2011.

Education 5:Explore joint/double degree opportunitiesThe number of double studies will be expanded to at least 2.

Progress: In 2009, ESE extended its investigation into starting a double degree

Master programme in Accounting, Auditing & Control together with the Anton

de Kom University of Suriname. ESE expects to reach to an agreement in 2010,

meaning that the first Surinamese students will participate in the ESE’s master

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Education 6:Increase the number of international studentsThe percentage of foreign master students must increase during the planned period so that roughly one-quarter of the students will be from abroad by 2013. The feasibility of providing at least one more bachelor’s programme in English will be investigated. IBEB’s attraction to foreign students is maximised by class composition (at least 50% foreign students) and an international instructor corps composition. IBEB enrolment should grow to a maximum of 200 by the 2012-2013 academic year. At least 50% of the enrolment will consist of foreign students.

Progress: In November 2009, 1,766 students were enrolled in ESE’s master degree

programmes, of which 335 hold a non-Dutch nationality. Which means an increase

in international students in 2009 (19%) compared to 2008 (16%) in master degree

programmes. Considering the total number of registered students, approximately

15% hold an international nationality (695 out of 4470).

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International students Bachelor Master Total

EU 177 249 426

OutsideEU 183 86 269

Total 360 335 695

In percentage (%) Bachelor Master Total

EU 49 74 61

OutsideEU 51 26 39

Total 100 100 100


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The acceptance rate of the IBEB programme has been reasonably constant in recent

years; which is an average of 120 students per year. The acceptance into IBEB-3

has decreased because these students nowadays transfer to the pre-master IBEB

programme. The reason why these categories are not combined in the overviews

is that IBEB 3 students obtain a bachelor's degree whereas the pre-master students

(IBEB) will not obtain a bachelor’s degree. Of these 121 IBEB students who started

studying in academic year 2009-2010, 68 hold an international nationality (56%).

This figure is comparable with previous years (around 60%).

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IBEB-1 0 128 121 126 117

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Education 7:There is sound coordination between bachelor and master programmesFor the coming years the aim is that in terms of numbers, around half of the original number of accepted students will achieve a master's degree. The intake in the mr-drs variant is at least equal to the intake in 2008.

Progress: ESE introduced the bachelor / master system in academic year 2002-2003.

The figures about the intake of cohorts show that of the initial BA/MA cohort

of 742 students 40% acquired their master's degree after seven years, where 93

students are still working on their master's degree. A master degree performance

of 52% (for the first cohort) will be accomplished if all of these 93 students obtain

their master's degree.

The acceptance of mr-drs students in the recent years are:

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Acceptance of mr-drs students Accepted in mr-drs Economics % mr-drs

2006-2007 54 417 12.9

2007-2008 57 470 12.1

2008-2009 78 504 15.5

2009-2010 77 614 12.5

* Thenumberofmr-drsstudentsremainedconstantcomparedto2008,butdecreasedin relativeterms.


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Education 8:Adequate deployment of staff In Bachelor-1 and Bachelor-2, at least 25% of the tutorials will be conducted by members of the teaching staff. In the bachelor phase, teaching tasks will be undertaken by Faculty working on their doctoral track / having completed their PhD. In the master phase only holders of a PhD (from within the Faculty) will be teaching. In Bachelor-1 it is especially important that full professors and top lecturers make an effort to teach, due to their position as role models.

The number of lecturers that contributed to giving lectures and tutorials in

academic year 2008-2009 (this does not concern the overall participation in

education):

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* Therelativelyhighnumberoffull/endowedprofessorsandassociateprofessorsthatlecturein themasterdegreephase(32%)ishigherthaninthebachelordegreephase(23%).

Number of teachers in 2008-2009 Number of teachers # subjects lecture/practical full/endowed prof. associate prof. assistant prof. PhD student assistant external lecturer Total

Bachelorprogramme 174 L 44 23 122 16 2 85 292 P 2 4 28 51 160 23 268

Masterprogramme 99 L 38 20 69 10 0 45 182 P 0 0 10 9 0 1 20

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* Externallecturersareoftenemployedinbothphasesofwhichsomeofthemmightholda PhDfromacompany(Ltd).

Education 9:Participation in the Duisenberg School of FinanceESE is the leading provider of at least one of the master programmes and participates to a significant extent in at least two of the master programmes of the Duisenberg School of Finance. It fulfils an important role in the design and execution of the Finance MPhil programme.

Progress: ESE attracts students to the master degree programme of Risk

Management. At the moment, there is not enough qualified Faculty to actively

participate in other master degree programmes of the Duisenberg School

of Finance (DSF). However, ESE does actively participate in the MPhil Finance

programme. In this respect, courses are taught at the Tinbergen Institute on

behalf of DSF. Moreover, Faculty are active in the Bankers Course of DSF, which is

an executive course for managers of financial institutions.

Number of teachers in 2008-2009 Number of teachers # subjects lecture/practical full/endowed prof. associate prof. assistant prof. PhD student assistant external lecturer Total



In percentage (%) Number of teachers # subjects lecture/practical full/endowed prof. associate prof. assistant prof. PhD student assistant external lecturer Total




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In the Bachelor-1 and Bachelor-2 programmes of academic year 2008-2009, the

following number/type of lecturers were deployed:

Education 10:EUR market leader in non-degree education No later than the end of 2010, a decision will be taken concerning the development of a specific commercial (post) non-degree education programme for students who hold a Bachelor's degree in fiscal economics. The same applies to students who wish to complete a continuing education programme in a finance-related field. ESE will investigate the extent to which there is a need in the marketplace for additional accredited non-degree education programmes that match ESE’s expertise. The quality of the current non-degree education programmes will be maintained at current levels and will be periodically reviewed.

Progress: ESE and FEI B.V. are conducting a study regarding the possibility of

introducing a post-initial programme in fiscal economics (post-initial: completing a

Bachelor's degree elsewhere and/or after gaining work experience). The experience

in this track will be used to evaluate whether to follow up with other programmes.

With regard to Finance, we will first need to attract new high-potential participants

before we examine whether to include a post-initial programme in Finance. Through

our contact with the business sector we know that at the present time companies

are very reluctant to commit themselves and to provide the funding for non-initial

degree programmes. ESE continues to invest in contacts with the business sector in

order to increase its reputation and to ensure that money will be funnelled towards

it once the economy picks up. This demands considerable marketing efforts.

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* Approximately32%ofthetutorialswereconductedbyFacultyofESE (Full/EndowedProfessor,AssociateProfessor,AssistantProfessororPhD-student).

Deployment of lecturers in Bachelor 1 and 2 # subjects full/endowed professor associate professor assistant professor PhD student student assistant external lecturer Total

Bachelor1 35 10 27 103 2 142

Bachelor2 44 1 4 15 22 52 12 106

Total 79 1 4 25 49 155 14 248

Percentage 0.4 1.6 10.1 19.8 62.5 5.6 100


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Deployment of lecturers in Bachelor 1 and 2 # subjects full/endowed professor associate professor assistant professor PhD student student assistant external lecturer Total

Bachelor1 35 10 27 103 2 142

Bachelor2 44 1 4 15 22 52 12 106

Total 79 1 4 25 49 155 14 248

Percentage 0.4 1.6 10.1 19.8 62.5 5.6 100


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Research 1:Woudestein research groups among top 5 in EuropeIt is ESE’s goal to be among the top 30 worldwide in at least two scientific fields; to be among the top 10 in Europe averaged over all scientific fields; to maintain top-three status in the Netherlands in each academic field as a minimum.

Progress: ESE is commissioning the Leiden University Centre for Science and

Technology Studies (CWTS) to perform a study on the global position of ESE and

its research programmes. In relation to the position of ESE academic fields within

the Netherlands, it can be concluded that according to the research assessment

performed by the QANU, ESE maintains top-three status in each academic field.

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2. Research

Global position of ESE and its research programmes Universities On average total On average per criterion

Quality Productivity Relevance Viability

ErasmusUniversityRotterdam 4.54(1) 4.50(2) 4.75(2) 4.83(2) 4.08(3)

TilburgUniversity 4.53(2) 4.78(1) 4.89(1) 4.44 4.00

MaastrichtUniversity 4.45(3) 4.25 4.50(3) 4.67(3) 4.42(1)

UniversityofGroningen 4.40 4.30(3) 4.30 5.00(1) 4.00

UniversityofAmsterdam(Economics) 4.22 4.22 4.06 4.50 4.11(2)

VUUniversity 4.00 3.92 3.83 4.25 4.00

UniversityofAmsterdam(Business) 3.95 3.83 3.83 4.33 3.83


Research 2:ESE will award at least 25 PhDs each year

Progress: In 2009 15 PhDs graduated. The expectation is that in 2010 ESE will meet

its targets again.

Research 3:ESE is one of the top recipients of Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) personal grantsDuring the period 2008-2013, 8 VENI grants, 3 VIDI grants and one VICI grant will be acquired.

Progress: In 2009, five of our Faculty applied for a VENI grant. In the end three of

them were actually awarded with this important grant. Moreover, one VIDI grant

was submitted. This submission was assigned the application of an A-status but

was not financially honoured.

Research 4:Promoting basic quality of the research programmesAll relevant research is accommodated within the Tinbergen Institute and/or ERIM. At least 80% of our Faculty must be affiliated with either Tinbergen Institute and/or ERIM

Progress: In December of 2009, 71 % of our researchers were affiliated with at

least one of our research institutes. Regarding the recruitment of new Faculty, the

existing output is also considered, which implies a qualification of an affiliation to

at least one of our research institutes within a reasonable time.

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Research 5:Participation in the 7th and subsequent EU framework programmeAt least € 4 million in European Grants will be acquired between 2008 and 2013.

Progress: In relation to acquiring European grants, ESE has been very successful in

the People Programme which is a feature of the Seventh Community Framework

Programme (FP7) this year. Apart from acquiring € 400K being part of a European

Consortium (initialised by Manchester Business School) in relation to the Marie

Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), four of our young Faculty have been rewarded

with the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Grant. Each awarded researcher

received up to € 154,549 to carry out their own research and further develop their

ideas over a period of two years.

Research 6:Governance, coherence and focus on organisation of 3rd flow fundingThe 3rd flow funding is accommodated in separate Private Limited Companies.

Progress: Universities are principally founded on two sets of activities: teaching and

research. The 3rd flow funding is concerned with the generation, use, application

and exploitation of knowledge and other university capabilities outside academic

environments. In other words, the so called Third Stream is about the interactions

between universities and the rest of society. ESE has ten affiliated private limited

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Organisation 1:Dual focus for our FacultyA dual focus is mandatory: all Faculty of ESE is involved in education, actively participate in academic research themselves. Doctorate requirement: the basic assumption is that of ESE’s permanent staff, 100% of full, endowed and associate professors and 95% of associate professors holds doctorate degrees.

Progress: All Faculty participate in both education and research. This is a

requirement set for all appointments. ESE applies an active policy to deploy full,

endowed and associate professors in the Bachelor-1 courses. This involvement can

still be improved, but more time is needed for realisation. New members of our

staff in the positions of associate professor and assistant professor will be appointed

only after they are conferred their PhDs. In 2009, 93% of the Faculty have a PhD. As

part of the performance interviews, clear agreements have been made with Faculty

who do not hold a PhD about the period for acquiring the degree and the articles

that will need to be submitted per year in order to acquire the degree in time.

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Organisation 2:Tenure track mandatoryESE wants to apply the university’s career and mobility policy when attracting young scholarly talent as members of the permanent staff. The basic principle is that career growth and development is first and foremost the responsibility of the Faculty themselves. ESE wishes to support employees in making targeted and sound career choices (decisions to progress, stay or leave). This implies a career system where the relationship between good performance and career is much more direct than is the case currently.

Progress: The school has reached an understanding with the Personnel Council

about a tenure track that will be implemented as of January 1st 2010. This system

will apply to all the newly-recruited Faculty who hold a permanent position. The

basic idea is that a person who joins the staff as an assistant professor can progress

to a position of an endowed professor (“UHD met baret”), on the condition that

(s)he meets certain criteria. At the time of the appointment, the person is clearly

informed about the necessary requirements and exactly about what type of

training/guidance the school can offer.

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Organisation 3:Professionalism of teaching among the lectures All staff carrying out teaching duties will be required to attend teacher training courses, which must deal with teaching methods as well as the skills required to design examinations, course tests and other forms of assessment properly. The aim is for all new Faculty and student assistants to attend courses in order to raise and maintain the standard of competences in this area. These courses must be taken up within one year. There will also be periodic further training of all existing Faculty and compulsory further training for those who are felt to provide, or may provide, a substandard level of teaching.

Progress: All employees who will be undertaking teaching tasks are obliged to

have didactic training (in didactics and the skills to properly devise exams, study

tests and other forms of evaluations). The intention is to offer courses, which are

focused on raising (and/or maintaining) these competencies to a certain level,

to all newly-appointed employees and student assistants. They will have to take

advantage of this offer within one year. In addition, periodic in-service training

will be mandatory for all employees who do not perform adequately. There are

additional courses that the school recommends to teachers, such as theatrical

techniques and presentation skills.

Organisation 4:Quality Management supporting the organisationFollowing each month end closing, the management information systems produce the management reports using automated means. A full consolidation is produced this way on a monthly basis.

Progress: Each month after the closing of the administration a data dump is

produced for the internal departments. In 2009 a release plan was identified

for the achievement of a hard close at each reporting moment. First step is to

have four reporting moments at the end of 2010, including year to date figures

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Organisation 5:Increase diversity of personnelThe Dean will hold the Faculty accountable for scouting ethnic and female talent. A Master Class will in any event be organised on this topic. The annual reports will specifically address the increase in ethnic and female staff members. Every doctoral student from an ethnic minority will be assigned a mentor from the Faculty who will be responsible for providing coaching in those aspects that are not specifically focused on the academic output. Specific attention will be devoted to scouting talented students who are part of the diversity target group to recruit them for an academic career.

Progress: The Mature Talent Project has entered its third year and the number

of mature talents has reached a total of ten. The first mature talent has been

conferred a PhD at the end of 2009 and was appointed as an assistant professor.

It was decided to stop recruiting new mature talents for the time being because

the increase in female talents via the normal channels has progressed quite

adequately.

The School is setting up a training programme for ethnic minority students.

Students with certain teaching scores are invited to participate as student

assistants (at a Bachelor-3 level) in a research project. In addition, they are also

offered a training track. Those who wish to be appointed as student assistant for

an additional six months during their Master phase are offered this option. The

programme should go into effect in the 2010/2011 academic year.

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The digital version of our annual report can be found

on our website: www.ese.eur.nl/annual_report. Here

you can find more information on several subjects as

well as photo impressions and film clips. Additional

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