TSM will again be a university business school co-operating closely with the UT. After a substantial reduction in personnel - from over fifty to twenty-five employees - in addition to a restructuring of tasks, the school is now officially part of the UT-holding Technopolis, which also includes other commercial activities.
'We are now a full daughter of this university', according to dean Schreve, who was appointed in spring. 'Without our own teachers from 1 January 2004. These will mostly be hired from the UT from now on.' Doing this TSM wants to put the recent past behind them in which the course of the school was not in accordance with the one followed by the UT, financial policy was in disorder, and partners Eindhoven and Groningen pulled out dissatisfied.
'Nobody was happy with the old-style TSM. There was no anchoring: TSM did their own thing without a clear connection or form of co-operation with the UT. Because of the BaMa-system the UT wanted to have their own business school in which commercial post-academic education is offered and we, as new administration, feel that it is quite natural to involve the UT as source of knowledge', Schreve explains.
'In this way the faculties will acquire an interesting extra source of income and we will obtain the required quality for our programmes. We offer rates that may be called high, but we expect something in return: excellent teachers and a contribution to the curricula of our school.'
