Open AccessEnglish Language Screening for Scientific Staff at Delft University of Technology
Author(s) -
Renate Klaassen,
Madeleine Bos
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v23i45.97347
Subject(s) - engineering , medical education , engineering management , scale (ratio) , mathematics education , library science , political science , engineering ethics , psychology , computer science , medicine , geography , cartography
Delft University of Technology (DUT) screened her (non-native English) scientific staff on their level of English proficiency in the academic year of 2006/2007. In this paper this large scale operation, involving planning, policy decisions, assessment means, advice and training are discussed. Since 2005 all the master programmes at DUT have been taught in English and since 3 years ago DUT has been an officially bilingual university with around 5,500 master students and 1,100 international students in the year 2008. Therefore, results are framed against the background of becoming an international universityE&SS education center FOCUSEducation and Student Affair