The following Education Tip offers inspiration to write Chapter 'Faculty Education Services (FDO)' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO.

Plan

Every faculty has extensive Faculty Education Services (Dutch: FDO), which are led by the Director of Studies. The FDO is the faculty’s contact point for all issues related to education policy, and provides support services to all the faculty and programme-specific (education) councils and committees. To guarantee high-quality support services, the faculty sees to adequate FDO policy and sufficient personnel.

Do

To perform its designated tasks adequately, the FDO is divided into several clusters.

• The student administration cluster is in charge of administering students’ curricula, diplomas, deliberations, certificates, the implementation of the Education and Examination Code (OER), etc.
• The quality assurance cluster performs all tasks related to education quality assurance (course feedback by students, external reviews, internal education and quality assurance policy, etc.) and education innovation, and advises lecturers, Programme Committees, the Quality Assurance Committee (Dutch: CKO), and the faculty board.
• The curriculum management cluster performs tasks related to the organisation and co-ordination of classes and examinations, curricular revisions, course sheets, appointment of lecturers, etc. 
• The student counselling cluster performs tasks related to study track counselling (monitoring personalised study tracks and study progress, students with special status, education communication), student counselling (course-specific content-related counselling and study support initiatives), field of study choice (individual conversations, group sessions, university fair (SID-in), info sessions, Bachelor's fair, job fair, Open Classes, and Try-outs), the exemption applications, diversity projects, etc.

The division of clusters and/or the instalment of additional clusters depends on the specific faculty context. The faculty guarantees the FDO’s adequate functioning by supplying sufficient means and personnel.