A European Framework for Psychologists' Training

STRUCTURE OF FORMAL EDUCATION - NETHERLANDS

The full psychology degree is offered at 8 universities

Entry requirements. A secondary level education diploma entails the right to enter university, if a certain stream ("preparatory higher educative") has been followed. The kind of faculty a student can enter depends on the curriculum followed at secondary school.

The degree structure. University training (nominal duration of four years). Faculties of universities are in theory pretty autonomous in establishing the contents of psychology curricula. The law stipulates that the dean of a faculty has to approve the curriculum of a study program after consultation with the education committee of that program. Quality control rests with the inspection of higher education, which can impose sanctions. In practice quality control is exercised by the Psychology Review Commission of the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) which, in many respects, functions as an accreditation committee. The members of this Commission are appointed after consultation with the "Chamber for Psychology", a gathering of the President and Executive Secretary of the Netherlands Institute of Psychologists (NIP) with the chairs of the various Departments of Psychology in the country. The Review Commission examines the curriculum of each psychology department every six years. A self-study is submitted by each department. The Commission will request additional information, such as examples of marked examination papers, theses, and reports on in-practice training of individual students. After studying the various documents the Commission pays a site- visit to each department. Recommendations of the Commission tend to be taken seriously.

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