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Honours Academy

About us

The Honours Academy organises and facilitates Leiden University’s extracurricular honours education. The Academy is a collaboration of the University’s seven faculties and hence one of its interfaculty education institutes.

The Honours Academy has several core tasks; safeguarding the quality of Leiden University's honours education, being a meeting point for staff members and students as well as a testing ground for educational innovation within Leiden University.

Policy

In both university wide and faculty honours programmes, staff members from all faculties at Leiden University collaborate to make challenging and innovative education a reality. In this, the Honours Academy has the following matters spearheading its policy:

The Honours Academy aims to aid students in their endeavour to find their own way and work on issues that align with their interests and support their development. The Academy includes students in the development and improvement of education, for example by inviting them to join the Educational Consultancy Committee of the Honours College. 

The Honours Academy seeks to boost a diverse influx of students in honours education by means of, for example, the Pre-University College programme in The Hague, employing talent coaches from varied backgrounds, and a inclusiveness workgroup for the Honours College.

The Honours Academy provides interdisciplinary education and, in doing so, supports collaborative efforts across faculty boundaries.

Honours education is a testing ground for substantive and didactic innovation. Hence why the Honours Academy offers concrete tools for honours teachers to innovate their teaching. For example, workshops are organised for lecturers and lecturer-coaches from the Leiden Leadership Programme are offered lectures.

The Honours Academy is a testing ground for educational innovation. Wherever possible, experiences from honours education are shared with the rest of the university, for example through news reports, evaluation reports, workshops and teachers' meetings.

Annual report

You can read how we translate our mission into practice in the Honours Academy's annual report (in Dutch). In it, we look back on the past academic year and present policy resolutions for the future. The report also contains inspiring examples of current honours education.

Organisation

The formal basis of the Honours Academy was laid down by the faculties of Leiden University in September 2013 in the Gemeenschappelijke Regeling (in Dutch). On this basis, the Honours Academy Regulations were drawn up, which regulate matters such as governance, organisation and teaching.

Governance

The board of the Honours Academy sets the course for the organisation regarding honours education and consists of the dean, the educational director, the operational director and a student member, the assessor. The assessor represents the interests of all honours students within the board of the Honours Academy.

Honours Council

The Honours Council advises the board on strategic matters regarding honours education. This involves matters that transcend individual honours programmes or faculties. The Honours Council consists of two members connected to Leiden University, two members from outside Leiden University with expertise in the field of honours education, two members from the field (preferably alumni) and two student members.

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