Tio University of Applied Sciences

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Tio’s mission is offering personal and intensive professional education that students and businesses rate as excellent. Learning by doing and quality are vital aspects of Tio’s education. By listening to students and businesses, Tio regularly implements changes in its education throughout the academic year. Tio’s focus on quality results in satisfied students.
Its national organization allows Tio to focus on the quality and innovation of its education. A team of education experts is formidable at work every day to safeguard Tio’s education quality and develop appealing and up-to-date study programs. Tio’s in-house software specialists ensure that our systems are up to date and perform optimally.
Are you curious to find out which study course is right for you? Tio offers various bachelor programs and vocational training courses in hotel management, event management, tourism, business, and marketing. Tio’s bachelor’s degrees take either three or four years, while its level-4 vocational training courses (mbo4-opleidingen, only available in Dutch) can be completed in just one or two years.
The Quality Forum is responsible for quality assurance. The system development manager (quality portfolio holder in the management team), the education manager, and the quality care manager are members of the forum. The Quality Forum is responsible for carrying out all the assessments, giving feedback regarding results, carrying out internal audits, ISO certification, recertification, updating process descriptions, and documenting results.
In order to guarantee the quality of the program, Tio has recently acquired new insights by implementing a new assessment system, which among other things, has led to the implantation of a new assessment form. The new system, initially used by work placement coordinators, is paying off. Thus, this system will be introduced to other groups, such as lecturers and final thesis coaches. There is also a framework to assess the functionality of the Tio locations and its staff.
Tio uses objective external sector studies (HBO monitor, National Student Survey, and indicators of the HBO council) and internal anonymous surveys. The internal surveys are used for assessing a series of courses (after the completion of a study unit) and exams (after every exam). A general survey is carried out once a year. After finalizing a work placement, the work placement is assessed by the student - contact with the work placement coordinator and nature of the work activities - and the work placement company - employment of the student and contact with Tio. Alumni students assessed the final thesis process and supervision of the final thesis process. There is also a staff and lecturers survey for employees, which is carried out once a year.
The Assessment panel took notice of the assessment results. The committee has concluded that most of the assessment results have been provided per location and per study course. As a result, the management team can compare the locations and formulate more specific measures for improvement. The Assessment panel finds this to be positive.
The Assessment panel appreciates the ambitious attitude of Tio. The University of Applied Sciences has set out to achieve an above-average score in the common assessments, such as the National Student Survey and the HBO monitor. Tio indicates that it deliberately sets high standards for itself, which is commendable, according to the committee. The National Student Survey shows that the general scores of ITM are higher than those of HEM. Tio considers raising the scores to the same level to be a challenge. From the perspective of quality-based thinking and the scores, Tio continuously asks itself: what can we do to improve and which actions serve this purpose? Therefore, Tio is working on the details in various areas. For instance, students find that the emphasis on event management in the HEM study course is limited. Consequently, scores in satisfaction surveys are lower across the board. Tio realizes that if it increases the emphasis on event management, this will most likely positively impact the scores across the board.

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