The schools, in which education is placed, and the institutes with (top-) research, were announced before. New for the university community is talk about just one faculty as umbrella for all activities now taking place in ten faculties. The model is shaped after the example of Wageningen. Rector Frans van Vught says that the new set-up is 'absolutely' an achievable one. 'You can see a number of universities wrestling with their organisational structure. That will also be our fate if we stay put.' In one faculty the number of committees and other bodies is reduced to workable whole according to Van Vught. 'On balance the governmental load will therefore diminish. And savings can be made on overhead,' he expects.
Among other things this means that administrative and supporting units ('in aid of the efficiency of primary processes') will be moved together. According to Van Vught, all personnel involved in the reorganisation, quite a lot of people, will remain in the employ of the university.
The whole matter is still open in that the faculties can each decide in which school they want to place their education. The new plans will not frustrate the plans for an alliance between WMW and TO, Van Vught thinks, and a small faculty like TW - soon to be situated somewhat strangely at Mechanical Engineering (WB) - will perhaps get a bit more freedom of choice in joining a school. The CvB is assuming a maximum of five schools. Van Vught will not as yet comment on which schools that will be, but one could think of the following model: schools for information-, social-, behavioural-, design-, and technical sciences. In which number two and three may be put together in one school. The study programmes will remain intact. A number of spear-point institutes, in social sciences, will be added to the existing ones.
