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Wittenborg University - Business School to hold an Open Day as part of its Grand Opening in Apeldoorn - 3 September 2010.

As part of the events of its grand opening in Apeldoorn and of the academic year 2010 - 2011, Wittenborg Business School, University of Applied Sciences, will hold an Open Day for interested students, friends and relations between 15:00 and 17:00 after the official opening, which will be conducted by the Mayor of Apeldoorn, Mr F de Graaf. All those interested are welcome to attend the Open Day.

Rabobank not accepting payments from Iran - guidelines for Wittenborg students from Iran.

Rabobank has informed Wittenborg University that in line with a recent European Union decision to block financial transactions from Iran it cannot accept payments from Iranian accounts. This means that students cannot pay directly to the Wittenborg Business School Netherlands ' Rabobank account from Iran.

Advice:

New students wishing to apply from Iran are advised to contact our admissions office for special payment arrangements which will allow them to apply for studies at Wittenborg Business School as planned.

Current students facing payment difficulties are advised to contact the student registrar at the student administration immediately so that a solution to payment problems can be found.

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New address:

New Address – New Telephone Number!

As from Monday 19th July Wittenborg Business School will be only available its new location address in Apeldoorn with a new telephone number!

Hogeschool Wittenborg, University of Applied Sciences

Laan van de Mensenrechten 500,

7331 VZ

Apeldoorn

The Netherlands

See you in Apeldoorn!

Wittenborg launches its new logo as from the summer of 2010. The logo will be used for the Business School as well as being part of the Hogeschool and University of Applied Sciences branding.

The logo has been designed in collaboration between Wittenborg’s marketing department and graphical designers Invorm , based in Enschede.

The logo represents Wittenborg’s development as a key Business School in the Netherlands, as well as a European Business School.

The circle represents

• a multicultural diversity
• inclusiveness
• global presence

A blue diamond is extremely rare and symbolizes great quality and in the logo it represents:

• · quality
• · independence
• · uniqueness

A combination of the letters U and W in the logo create the impression of two scholars sitting side by side, and the U for University also represents a United Wittenborg.

Finally, the image as a whole can be seen as hot air balloon, representing the way that Wittenborg students are given the opportunity to rise above the rest.

Wittenborg and ROC Aventus Sign Contract in the new "Wittenborg Wing".

At a ceremony in Apeldoorn yesterday, the five year contract between Wittenborg and the Aventus College was finalised. The agreement signed for Aventus by Chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr H, A van Andel, Ing. and for Hogeschool Wittenborg, University of Applied Sciences by Mr P Birdsall, MA.ed, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

The City of Apeldoorn was represented at the ceremony by Councillor Hans Wegman, who has been instrumental in bring the two education institutes together. Councillor Wegman thanked both parties for their move towards collaboration, and reiterated the City’s pleasure at welcoming the business school to Apeldoorn.

Chairman van Andel emphasised that the collaboration is hoped not only to be in the facilitating of Wittenborg’s presence in the new, modern building located in the centre of Apeldoorn, but that the two institutes can look further and find areas in which they can work together on education projects such as the development of joint programmes or courses.

Chairman Birdsall of Wittenborg thanked both Apeldoorn and Aventus for making this move possible and went on to tell the staff and students present that this was a momentous time for the Business School and that the opportunities created by the move to the wonderful facilities in Apeldoorn would create a wonderful learning and working environment for all members of Wittenborg. Birdsall also stressed the great opportunities of working together with the staff and students of the Aventus College.

Wittenborg has planned the main move on 19th July, however the process has now started with the signing of this contract. The Grand Opening will take place in the Wittenborg Wing of Aventus on Friday 3rd September 2010 at which the Mayor of Apeldoorn, mr. G.J. de Graaf.

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)