I just received word that the decision has been reversed and current students will keep their original degree track. This victory belongs entirely to all of you who stepped up to be heard. I am just humbled to have been part of this shift and will keep a close eye …
March 2, 2016
Final supporters
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has issued the conversion from Bachelor of Business Administration to Bachelor of Arts for all Tourism Management studies in the Netherlands. This conversion is based on an advice from the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation.
This raises a number of issues violating the rights of current students who have enrolled in their first year to acquire a BBA at the end of their studies. They will not be receiving this degree regardless of the year they are currently studying in. This includes all students currently in the first to fifth year of their studies. A prominent example of this are students who have not yet graduated but their fellow classmates have already received a BBA. Does that mean that either the finished students are receiving a lower degree or that the ones that have yet to graduate will also receive the BBA?
The second issue is that neither the MECS nor NUFFIC or the Dutch universities reach the opinion of current Tourism Management students in the Netherlands regarding such conversion. This research has been going on for the past one and a half year and only just a month ago, universities have started informing their students that a change had already been made in the degree. Universities were asked to voice their opinion about a preference in the degree by NUFFIC in their research but there was no contact with one very important stakeholder - the students. It is simply unacceptable, unethical and unpleasant for students who have been paying enormous tuition fees and studying subjects related to Business Administration, to receive a degree other than intended when enrolling for the studies.
As united students from both International and Dutch Tourism Management programs, we demand that everybody who has enrolled for a BBA will receive the respectable degree. This means that the conversion to a Bachelor of Arts should be made effective for students starting their studies in the upcoming school year (September 2016) and not for those already enrolled to a Bachelor of Business Administration!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
January 21, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
January 18, 2016
January 16, 2016
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have stopped to sign this and it is your passion that keeps this moving forward. If each of you could find someone else who cares about our degree and send them this link we might just reach that first hundred mark today.
42 Comments
The main problem is that it affects even those students that have started their study under the pretext of receiving a certain degree. If the rule would apply only to new students and if it would be made KNOWN to new students that the degree changed, something that is still not happening on Saxion's info sites, (Still tourism management is stated to be a BBA study) it would at least be fair. Like this all I feel is a slap in the face!
Being an alumni of Leisure and Tourism Management studies in Germany in a course that faced the same situation, I can say from experience that the degree of B.o.A. does not give enough credit to the studies completed. The course should remain a BBA im any case, even for freshmen.
I haven't payed for my daughter's education that much money for her to acquire a BA than BBA. I insist this conversion to be effective from now on, not for the students already enrolled to BBA!
I am studying international tourism management, and I started my studies as BBA and that's what I have been working for through the years. You can't just change it because I might not have choice the course if it was a BA. It's like promising students their BBA degree, they're working hard for it and than at the end you just give them a BA degree... That's completely not fair! If you want to change it to BA, just change it for all the students who will start the tourism course in September
This is a disgrace. If they hope to discontinue or modify a course then do it starting from the new batch of enrolments and let those already enrolled receive what they were promised.
You can't change the rules while playing the game.
No BA!!!
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I just received word that the decision has been reversed and current students will keep their original degree track. This victory belongs entirely to all of you who stepped up to be heard. I am just humbled to have been part of this shift and will keep a close eye …
March 2, 2016
Final supporters
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has issued the conversion from Bachelor of Business Administration to Bachelor of Arts for all Tourism Management studies in the Netherlands. This conversion is based on an advice from the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation.
This raises a number of issues violating the rights of current students who have enrolled in their first year to acquire a BBA at the end of their studies. They will not be receiving this degree regardless of the year they are currently studying in. This includes all students currently in the first to fifth year of their studies. A prominent example of this are students who have not yet graduated but their fellow classmates have already received a BBA. Does that mean that either the finished students are receiving a lower degree or that the ones that have yet to graduate will also receive the BBA?
The second issue is that neither the MECS nor NUFFIC or the Dutch universities reach the opinion of current Tourism Management students in the Netherlands regarding such conversion. This research has been going on for the past one and a half year and only just a month ago, universities have started informing their students that a change had already been made in the degree. Universities were asked to voice their opinion about a preference in the degree by NUFFIC in their research but there was no contact with one very important stakeholder - the students. It is simply unacceptable, unethical and unpleasant for students who have been paying enormous tuition fees and studying subjects related to Business Administration, to receive a degree other than intended when enrolling for the studies.
As united students from both International and Dutch Tourism Management programs, we demand that everybody who has enrolled for a BBA will receive the respectable degree. This means that the conversion to a Bachelor of Arts should be made effective for students starting their studies in the upcoming school year (September 2016) and not for those already enrolled to a Bachelor of Business Administration!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
January 21, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
January 18, 2016
January 16, 2016
I am honestly overwhelmed by how many of you have stopped to sign this and it is your passion that keeps this moving forward. If each of you could find someone else who cares about our degree and send them this link we might just reach that first hundred mark today.
42 Comments
Graduated 2 months later than my fellow students (who have a BBA degree now) and I got a Bachelor of Arts. I heard this at the moment I had to sign my certificate. It doesn't really matter, it won't affect you in your career, they said. Aren't business administration and arts two whole different things?
The main problem is that it affects even those students that have started their study under the pretext of receiving a certain degree. If the rule would apply only to new students and if it would be made KNOWN to new students that the degree changed, something that is still not happening on Saxion's info sites, (Still tourism management is stated to be a BBA study) it would at least be fair. Like this all I feel is a slap in the face!
Being an alumni of Leisure and Tourism Management studies in Germany in a course that faced the same situation, I can say from experience that the degree of B.o.A. does not give enough credit to the studies completed. The course should remain a BBA im any case, even for freshmen.
I haven't payed for my daughter's education that much money for her to acquire a BA than BBA. I insist this conversion to be effective from now on, not for the students already enrolled to BBA!
I am studying international tourism management, and I started my studies as BBA and that's what I have been working for through the years. You can't just change it because I might not have choice the course if it was a BA. It's like promising students their BBA degree, they're working hard for it and than at the end you just give them a BA degree... That's completely not fair! If you want to change it to BA, just change it for all the students who will start the tourism course in September
This is a disgrace. If they hope to discontinue or modify a course then do it starting from the new batch of enrolments and let those already enrolled receive what they were promised.
You can't change the rules while playing the game.
No BA!!!
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Graduated 2 months later than my fellow students (who have a BBA degree now) and I got a Bachelor of Arts. I heard this at the moment I had to sign my certificate. It doesn't really matter, it won't affect you in your career, they said. Aren't business administration and arts two whole different things?