16-12-2008Web magazine
More and more students are staying in or returning to full-time education even when they are no longer obliged to. This is mainly the result of the popularity of higher education.
16-12-2008Web magazine
Dutch education spending rose in 2007, but by less than in previous years.
25-11-2008Web magazine
Currently, more than 1 million people in the Netherlands hold a university degree. Nearly 70 thousand obtained a doctorate in the period 2004-2007.
02-10-2008Web magazine
The average age of people employed in education was over 43 years in 2007. This makes education the ‘greyest’ sector of employment in the Netherlands.
23-09-2008Web magazine
People with a non-western background fairly frequently indicate that Dutch is a difficult language for them. Turks find it harder than Moroccans to speak, read and write Dutch.
04-09-2008Web magazine
Nearly 1.1 billion euro was spent on private education in the Netherlands in 2006. Spending on private education grew more rapidly than spending on subsidised education.
02-09-2008Web magazine
31-07-2008Web magazine
In 2007/’08, far fewer havo-4 girls (38 percent) opted for the Culture and society profile than in the preceding school years (more than 50 percent). The Economics and society profile is now favourite among havo-4 girls.
29-07-2008Web magazine
In 2006, the public sector spent 1.7 billion euro (5 percent of total spending on education and 0.3 percent of the GDP) on apprenticeship training programmes and other combinations of education and learning on the job.
03-07-2008Web magazine
In the school year 2007/’08, 65 thousand pupils attended schools for children with handicaps and/or disorders. The number has almost doubled relative to the school year 1995/’96. The majority of pupils attending special needs education are boys.
11-06-2008Article
The Dutch standard classification of education was introduced by Statistics Netherlands in 1978. This classification covers all types of programmes by level and field of study and is used for survey coding, statistics or registration. Each programme is assigned an identity code, which facilitates ordering of programmes according to other classifications, such as the ISCED 1997.
10-06-2008Web magazine
In 2006 an average 1.1 million people aged between 17 and 65 years participated in some form of non-funded education.
05-06-2008Web magazine
The number of underprivileged pupils in primary education has been reduced by half since the school year 1995/’96. In 2007/’08, nearly 280 thousand underprivileged pupils attended Dutch primary schools, corresponding to 18 percent of all pupils in primary education (excluding special primary education), as against 581 thousand (over 39 percent) in 195/’96.
29-05-2008Web magazine
In 2007, Dutch students altogether borrowed 2.7 billion euro – an increase by 19 percent relative to the previous year – from the institution responsible for the issue of study loans and grants (IBG). Students in higher education accounted for the largest amount: over 2.2 billion euro.
29-05-2008Web magazine
Nearly 13 percent of pupils who took the final primary education test (Cito test) in 2005 continue their education at a higher level in the so-called brugklas (which aims to bridge the gap between primary and secondary education) than the result of the Cito test allows.
27-05-2008Web magazine
15-05-2008Web magazine
In recent years, the number of people obtaining a doctorate has increased in the Netherlands, particularly among women.
22-04-2008Web magazine
Although schools in secondary and tertiary education often have an operating surplus at the end of the year, they do not always save it up. Most schools use the money to invest in buildings or equipment.
15-04-2008Web magazine
Between 2001 and 2007, the proportion of higher educated people in the Netherlands has grown across all age categories. Last year, there were about as many higher as lower educated individuals in the Netherlands for the first time.
04-03-2008Web magazine
One quarter of primary and special needs schools invested a total of nearly 0.5 billion euro in 2006. Most of this capital was invested in bonds.
05-02-2008Web magazine
Eleven percent of pupils in the first year of one of the vocational tracks of preparatory secondary vocational education (vmbo) who did not repeat a year had advanced to a higher type of education four years later
15-01-2008Web magazine
Nearly 30 percent of students in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) combine learning and working in the apprenticeship-based learning track (bbl).
15-01-2008Web magazine
At the end of 2005 72 thousand people in the Netherlands had a PhD. This is less than one in a thousand people.
