FINANCIAL HEALTH AND RESILIENCE BY (RE-)DESIGN
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“I like it. This is very fresh, innovative, strategic – instead of ad hoc - and sustainable!”
Alonso Ayala, Head of the Academic Department Urban Social-Spatial Development at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University.
“Along the way, Tikvah advised and equipped me how to simplify the course, by doing less actually, so that participants learn more – and it actually set free significant new budget.”
Specialist in Urban Land, Housing Development and Capacity Building
Course Manager, Sustainable Urban Development (SUD), Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University.
Are you curious for more? Would you like to get in touch? Feel free to contact our lead directly for any questions or inquiries you may have. tikvah@studioblended.com +31 6 42 47 29 69
A realitycheck. Higher Education is in trouble in many parts of the world. ‘
The range of challenges all add up to arguably the most pivotal moment in
the history of universities. As so often before, universities must
reinvent themselves to survive. (...) Universities now face crucial, even existential,
questions. One of which is how to fund these institutions’ (Nature 2025). Hostile politics and budget cuts in Higher Education have implications across the sector also in The Netherlands (FNV 2025). In these times of budget cuts at universities, institutes for capacity development are hit extra hard, by the changing winds of politics.
Financial health and financial resilience are crucial for the sustainability of your course or degree. Ensuring both enables you as coordinator to understand what is realistic and viable in your curriculum design.
The urge to (re-)design or repackage a course or degree which is affordable is an opportunity to take a step back and first (re-)design your curriculum.
Financial health is wired through all our advice. Whilst we can quantify it for you, we rather work more structurally and greatly improve the design of your curriculum from the inside out. You will be suprised by how actual budget can be set free, and pay you back the investment you make.
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Figure: Your golden triangle or so-called project constraint triangle - quality, cost and time investment. After Project Management for Development Professionals (PMDPro4), 2017, p. 15
Externally marketing a course’s content to prospective participants depending on demand/marketability often implies internally repackaging the curriculum (almost) annually. This results in high time costs and frustration for your teaching staff. Development of material remains in the pilot phase often depending on one academic specialist, putting a lot of pressure on him or her. A curriculum with mature material would free up time and create opportunity for consolidation and rejuvenation of the vision of the course.
Have you ever considered slowing down the design process of (re)packing your course or degree, and taking a step back, allowing a season or two for a pilot in order to develop a financially healthy, resilient way forward for the coming ten years?
We propose (re-)designing the curriculum of the course/training with technical and human resilience, and design in such a way that your curriculum becomes fit for purpose and modular. We actually can design with you a decade proof curriculum. And- we can think with you and your marketing team, how to market your course or degree strategically without losing the maturity of the program.
We always work to make the curriculum as simple as possible, we call this quality simplicity. Simple is really hard! But it is so rewarding.
Have a look at our design studio to discover how we go about this.
Price
Price is entirely dependent on the scale of your course/degree, and your time line. Feel free to contact us to talk more about what you need.
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🎙 A priori architecture - matters of time -
the schedule (technical).
Prefer to read? Transcript
Listen on: Acast Spotify Apple
Release forthcoming summer ‘25
Nature 2025, The future of universities. September 24, 2025.
Big ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended
Curios? Feel free to contact our senior advisor and teacher trainer directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
Resilient education that stands the test of time - by design.
Financial health and financial resilience are crucial for the sustainability of your course or degree. Ensuring both enables you as coordinator to understand what is realistic and viable in your curriculum design.
The urge to (re-)design or repackage a course or degree which is affordable is an opportunity to take a step back and first (re-)design your curriculum.
Financial health is wired through all our advice. Whilst we can quantify it for you, we rather work more structurally and greatly improve the design of your curriculum from the inside out. You will be suprised by how actual budget can be set free, and pay you back the investment you make.
Figure: Your golden triangle or so-called project constraint triangle - quality, cost and time investment. After Project Management for Development Professionals (PMDPro4), 2017, p. 15
Externally marketing a course’s content to prospective participants depending on demand/marketability often implies internally repackaging the curriculum (almost) annually. This results in high time costs and frustration for your teaching staff. Development of material remains in the pilot phase often depending on one academic specialist, putting a lot of pressure on him or her. A curriculum with mature material would free up time and create opportunity for consolidation and rejuvenation of the vision of the course.
Have you ever considered slowing down the design process of (re)packing your course or degree, and taking a step back, allowing a season or two for a pilot in order to develop a financially healthy, resilient way forward for the coming ten years?
We propose (re-)designing the curriculum of the course/training with technical and human resilience, and design in such a way that your curriculum becomes fit for purpose and modular. We actually can design with you a decade proof curriculum. And- we can think with you and your marketing team, how to market your course or degree strategically without losing the maturity of the program.
We always work to make the curriculum as simple as possible, we call this quality simplicity. Simple is really hard! But it is so rewarding.
Have a look at our design studio to discover how we go about this.
Key projects
Update follows soon (2025).Price
Price is entirely dependent on the scale of your course/degree, and your time line. Feel free to contact us to talk more about what you need.Join related studies / Our Audio Podcast
🎙 A priori architecture - matters of time -
the schedule (technical).
Prefer to read? Transcript
Listen on: Acast Spotify Apple
Release forthcoming summer ‘25
References
FNV 2025, ‘Stop de sloop van het Hoger Onderwijs’, December 9, 2025.Nature 2025, The future of universities. September 24, 2025.
More design angles we use
Technical resilienceBig ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended
Curios? Feel free to contact our senior advisor and teacher trainer directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
Resilient education that stands the test of time - by design.
Prefer to have direct contact?
Feel free to contact us directly
Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
Independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, director.
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
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Feel free to contact us directly
Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
Independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, director.
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
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STUDIOBLENDED Non Profit Foundation
Registration Chamber of Commerce
KvK-number 86242598 (Dutch)
VAT identification number
NL 86 39 07 29 5 B01
Bankaccount
NL40 INGB 0709 6156 04
SWIFT/BIC: INGBNL2A
StudioBlended Foundation
