HBO competencies level 1
NHL Stenden's certificate for the MBO-HBO acceleration route: an assessment at first-year HBO level, passed on 11 June 2025 while I was still in the MBO, with the AI part of the Business Connectivity Portal as the work under examination.
| Programme | MBO-HBO versnellingstraject (VABOK IT), Firda with NHL Stenden |
| Assessed on | Business Connectivity Portal, deelproduct AI integratie |
| Assessors | Jos Foppele (HBO-ICT, NHL Stenden), Bert Annink (external MBO assessor, Firda) |
| Level | First year of HBO (higher professional education) |
The assessment took a beroepsproduct as its input: real work, presented and defended, instead of a written test. Mine was the AI part of the BCP, a Dutch T5 I fine-tuned on generated assignments to fill in the education level, programme, learning phase and learning outcomes for an assignment a company types in, served behind a Django REST API.
On 11 June 2025 our team of three demonstrated the platform at NHL Stenden to the assessors, invited companies and guests, and my part was assessed the same day. All three of us passed the MBO cum laude, and the certificate for first-year HBO level gave exemptions from some first-year HBO lessons. Two weeks later, on 25 June 2025, I received the MBO-4 diploma, and that September I started HBO-ICT at NHL Stenden.
