‘Improve career advice’

The RUG wants to make an even larger effort to provide proper career advice, says RUG president Sibrand Poppema. For years, the university has been scoring poorly on this front.
By Peter Keizer / Translation by Sarah van Steenderen

In the National Student Survey, students have been saying for years that they are unhappy with the RUG’s career guidance. The alumni survey that will be discussed during this week’s University Council meeting showed the same result: most former students felt they were insufficiently prepared for a career.

‘The alumni survey showed some great results. But career orientation is a recurring theme. In spite of measures such as Next (ed.: the university’s career centre which has been renamed Career Services), it’s still a point of contention’, Dinie Bouwman of the Personnel faction said during the Council meeting.

‘Not professional training’

RUG president Sibrand Poppema can see this as well. ‘The issue of a research university is that we differ from a university of applied sciences in that we’re generally not an institute of professional training. So that means that it’s not actually all that strange that students, upon graduating, find themselves in a job that does not directly relate to what they studied.’

Nevertheless, the president does feel the university should make more of an effort towards career guidance. ‘We’re constantly talking about it with the faculties. The professions students can pursue with their degrees should be discussed more often in class. Right now, there’s not much more we can do than to keep reminding people of that.’

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