Hopefully an agreement today
- The CPC wants to limit the Binding Study Recommendation experiments to the division BML (Business, Media and Law) and ‘right of consent’ for the study programme committees.
- The Executive Board disagrees. The deliberation will continue the 18th of April.
The Impasse regarding the future of the Binding Study Recommendation (BSR) on Windesheim is still going on. During an extra meeting on the 11th of April, the executive board failed to convince the Central Participation Council. (CPC)
The Executive board has been compromising a lot these past couple of months. At the beginning of the year the CPC rejected the proposal to abolish the entire BSR on Windesheim and replace this with a ‘Main Phase Standard’ for study results of 45 credits. But the CPC consented to let divisions experiment with the abolishment of the BSR. Further meetings also ended without a result. Shortly before a follow-up meeting on the 28th of March the CPC provided the Executive board with a written statement which stated that the CPC rejected the Executive board`s latest proposal entirely.
During one of the meetings, the executive board proposed to keep the BSR at 54 for Windesheim, while study programs want to experiment could choose a ‘Main Phase Standard.’ The CPC had a lot of doubts, especially regarding the risks concerning the BSR experiments. The CPC thinks it is sensible to take their time to reflect on it all. The Executive Board did not agree.
On the 11th of April, during the extra meeting a compromise was proposed. This compromise would limit the experiments to the division of BML. However, the CPC was bothered by the fact that the management team of the division BML had asked the Unit Participation Council to agree with the experiments. The Unit Participation Council did agree. However, according to CPC chairman Cor Niks, this was never supposed to happen. He was talking about a “proposal regarding the ‘right of consent’ based on speculation”. Hereupon the CPC set a rigorous condition: the study programme committees of BML have to get the ‘right of consent’ regarding the BSR experiments. According to the council the risks regarding the financial and organizational issues will increase and it guarantees that a study program really wants to collaborate and is not pestered by it’s management to do so. The ‘right of consent’ of the Unit Participation Council would be canceled. The Executive Board could not accept this prerequisite. Chairman Henk Hagoort called it ‘inconsequent’ on one hand to decide to limit the experiments to the BML division and on the other hand to make the judgement of the Educational boards central.
The other divisions besides BML should also get that right. Hagoort also had fundamental objections. This would mean that the CPC decides where, when and who gets the “right of consent.” The Executive Board thinks that the current right to prior consultation is sufficient. The CPC is worried about this and was not willing to retract their prerequisite. The meeting will continue on the 18th of April. (MH)
