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The state of Higher Education in Apeldoorn

...paving a road to an Apeldoorn University?

A discussion note

Higher education has long been the subject of intense debate in the municipality of Apeldoorn [i] , a fast growing new town on the edge of the central Netherlands region. Due to Dutch government policy, formed during the past twenty years, Apeldoorn has struggled to attract and establish state funded higher education to the city, and even now that Apeldoorn has achieved a status of top 12 Dutch cities it does not have its own, state funded, multi-discipline, higher education institute. In 2009, a project, instigated by the Apeldoorn municipality, which would enable three regional state-funded Universities of Applied Science to establish a new institute, named “Kenloo” [ii] in the city failed after being unable to attract new students to the four niche programmes it was offering. A rather strained situation occurred between the municipality and the instigators of Kenloo [iii] (The Stichting HBO Consortium Apeldoorn), as different parties blamed each other for the collapse of the project. As it seemed, a great setback for the higher education ambitions of the city of Apeldoorn.

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(Edited - original submission Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 01:42 PM)