Education
The ICO educational programme provides a conceptual basis and organizing framework with the aim of supporting PhD candidates to develop themselves to the highest possible level of professional researcher in the field of education and training. To this end, ICO establishes formal educational structures…
Theme Groups
The different elements in the ICO mission lead to the organization of the research programme into ‘thematic groups’. These thematic groups can be regarded as Special Interest Groups. The thematic groups are responsible for the organization of ICO’s thematic courses and also contribute to…
ICO Membership
Institutes of fourteen Dutch and Belgian universities participate in ICO. These universities constitute the inter-university graduate school ICO. To become a member of ICO, you have be appointed at one of the ICO universities, and should be employed in a faculty or institute participating…
ICO Course Programme 2024-2025
You can now register for our upcoming ICO Courses. Although we are still working on the programme for the next year, the first outline of the courses we will offer has been set up, starting in September; for more information see https://ico-education.nl/education/. The programme will…
Learn MoreHow to avoid death by PowerPoint?
At our ICO National Spring School one of our PhD members noticed that the PowerPoint slides that were used, were not always supporting the presentation as they could have done. Slides with too much information, long sentences, or too many bullets and unreadable fonts…
Learn MorePhD Defence Brigitte Theeuwes-De Bock
On Wednesday 29 May 2024, at 10.00 hours exactly, Brigitte Theeuwes-De Bock (Leiden University) will defend her thesis Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools. All ICO Members are cordially invited to be present at the PhD graduation ceremony at the Academiegebouw of Leiden University….
Learn MoreInvitation ICSEI thematic event on The use of evidence for policy-making in education
We kindly invite you to a thematic event on The use of evidence for policy-making in education, organized by ICSEI (the International congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement), in collaboration with research institute LEARN! (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and the Education University in Hong Kong….
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