The thresholds in our education.

Written on the basis of my encounter with an educational innovation.

Education is an environment, a place where large groups of learners are guided within frameworks to generic learning outcomes. In our country, education and the resulting knowledge-based economy are on a high level. We are therefore vigilant to maintain this high level and in this way we set out criteria that training must meet. The government is a driving factor in this. I think it is right, because the same government pays a large part of this training.

Yet lately you hear more and more a call, perhaps even a cry for change. The problem of transparency, accreditation and the large numbers of students who have to walk through the system is: generalisation, centralisation upscaling and the use of digital resources to reduce teaching pressure.

Understand me, I have nothing against these digital resources, not even the scaling up and even the transparency I embrace, but there is a downside to it. We lose in this process the unique excellence, the supertalents, the individual.

Imagine, you're an employer, and you need that one talent, that person who can stand out from the crowd. How can you find these in a world where the CVs refer to generic knowledge and skills?