Thom Palstra, rector at University of Twente, announced that there will be opportunities for staff to be promoted based on a stronger weight of their achievements in the educational domain. As a first step faculties are asked to consider whom of their associate professors would be entitled for a professorship based on a set of criteria.
International efforts
This step fits within international efforts to improve measuring and rewarding academic teaching coordinated by Ruth Graham on behalf of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK).