Doing companies’ assignments with students

• What kind of students are interested?

• Skills of teaching staff

• Conditions

• How to manage within the Education Programme?

Hanze University

• 22.000 students

• 18 Schools

• School of Business Management

School of Business Management

• 2058 students

• 3 different Courses

• Real Estate

(Business Management, Human Resource Management)

School of Real Estate

• More than 800 students (300 first Year students)

• 45 employees

• RICS accreditated

• 3 Specializations:

Commercial Property management,

Asset management

Area Development

Lies Oldenhof

• Project manager

Real Estate

• Coaching talented

students (Honours)

• Quality (Audit and

Accreditation)

• Research Methods

• Companies’

assignments

Students

• Great variety, directly from secondary school, University

of Groningen (academic level) or Professional Education

(lower level)

• Only Professional Real Estate Education

• Master of Real Estate, accessible after 3 years of practice

Goal of the research Education Programme:

• Knowing different research types in applied research

• Define a research assignment

• Read a research report

• Arriving at the relevant conclusions

• Writing a thesis (4th year)

Companies’ assignments in the Education Programme

• 3rd year applied research part of the curriculum, 3

months, twice a year

• Internships

• Honours programme

• Thesis

• Tailor made

Coach Skills

• Background in Research Methods

• Flexible and creative, thinking step by step

• Focus on results

• Knowledge of the subject

• Accessible for students more than once in a week

• Able to structure but also selling the assignment

• Keeping students motivated

Success factors

• Split up a research in small(er) parts

• Knowledge of the principal available

• Information “just in time”

• Focus on bottlenecks (completion time!)

• Long term relation with the companies

• Project filing

Conclusions

• Establish a circle of Real Estate companies

• Analyze the question

• Let students and teachers choose, according to their

preferences

• Confront students with the principal and his demands

• Use an project planning model (different research types)

Questions

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