09 februari 2012

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Tom van Veen

Tom van Veen (1953, PhD, associate professor in General Economics) was, together with professor Wil Albeda – former minister of Social Affairs – one of the founding fathers of the Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, which welcomed its first hundred students in 1984. He loves to travel and in his role as vice dean of International Relations of the faculty and chairman of the UM's China team, he travels the world. He has a weakness for Australia, the country where he has spent a number of sabbaticals, together with his wife and three children. He is also part-time full professor in Economics at Nyenrode Business University, School of Accountancy and Controlling.

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Artikelen van Tom van Veen

Let’s have a party in Chongqing

door Tom van Veen op woensdag 14 oktober 2009

Invite your best friends, ask about 3000 students to volunteer, use your dance, drama and art academy to perform, let the president deliver an impressive performance as a singer and close the party with decent Chinese fireworks. These were the ingredients for the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Chongqing University that I attended together with rector Gerard Mols, Louis Boon and Xiaoyan Zha...

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Paul de Grauwe on the economic crisis

door Tom van Veen op woensdag 7 oktober 2009

Last Monday, I attended the start of a series of lectures about the economic crisis which is organized by Studium Generale. Prof Paul de Grauwe from Leuven started the lecture series. Paul de Grauwe is an interesting economist because he has always combined high quality research with “practical” policy advice and has always been prominent in the public debate. And he was for quite some time member...

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Having dinner with "The people's university"

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 24 september 2009

Led by the president, a high delegation of Renmin University paid a visit to Maastricht University this week. Renmin is the Chinese word for “people” .Renmin University was the first university that was founded under the Communist regime and the president was very proud of this. The university is very strong in social sciences and a good partner for Maastricht. The visit was nice, but there was on...

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EURO*MBA and CREAPOLIS

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 17 september 2009

Last week the EURO*MBA held its residential week in Nantes. The EURO*MBA? Yes, this is a distance learning MBA program in which 2 French Universities, 1 German Business School, 1 Spanish Business School, 1 Polish Business School and Maastricht participate. It is a distance learning program, but in order to meet students and for students to meet peers and to discover different cultures in different...

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I beg your pardon

door Tom van Veen op dinsdag 8 september 2009

As usual, the first Monday of September heralds the new academic year. Ok, last week Monday was actually the last Monday of August, but it was nevertheless the beginning of the first blocks. And what a start it was. Students were queuing for enrollment, staff members did not know how many students were enrolled in their courses, UCM skipped the first week of education and the tutor was kindly aske...

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Bali, Breukelen and Barcelona

door Tom van Veen op dinsdag 1 september 2009

We spent our summer holiday in Indonesia, on Bali. One of our Dutch friends lives on Bali and instead of she coming to Europe in summer, we thought it a good idea to visit her on Bali. This was not our first stay on Bali. In 1988 we visited Bali for the first time and as could be expected in 2009, Bali has become more crowded and more touristic. But being half Indonesian myself and considering Aus...

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De Nacht van Gulpen as an integration device?

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 25 juni 2009

At FEBA, both staff and students are concerned about how to turn our faculty and university into a real international community in which students from a large variety of nationalities are keen on working in multicultural teams. At this moment we have quite a few foreign students, but they seem to mingle only reluctantly and preferably with students from the same nationality. Although this is under...

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“Frans-Nederlandse ontmoetingsdagen”

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 18 juni 2009

Too bad, but I really cannot find an English translation for the title. Since the French are involved, there is no information about this event provided in English. OK, there is this French-Dutch Academy and they organize each year a conference where French and Dutch Deans and Admins meet and discuss topics that are related to French-Dutch co-operation in higher education. This year, Universi...

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It is a long way to a network school of business and economics

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 11 juni 2009

It is visit time I guess. After the visit of Anthony Long from Adelaide, we had a visit from Ed Weymes from Waikato (New Zealand) last Friday. Yesterday we had our bi-annual meetings with our International Advisory Board. Today we have two visitors from Lingnan College Ghuangzhou (China) and tomorrow we will host two visitors from the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland (New Zealand). Thes...

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International Cooperation and Pinkpop

door Tom van Veen op donderdag 4 juni 2009

Sometimes you don’t have to sell Maastricht because Maastricht sells itself. Last Thursday Anthony Long from the University of Adelaide visited our university. Anthony was recruiting students in Germany and thought it was a good idea to drop by in Maastricht because Maastricht is quite popular among Adelaide students. The efforts of Ina Engelen (UCM) and myself to promote Maastricht extensively in...