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Early school-leaving in the Netherlands
Dissertation on factors that explain why some adolescents are more likely to leave school early than others. Theoretical frameworks and methodology from sociolological, economic, criminologic and...
University bachelors graduating more quickly
The share of university students receiving a bachelor’s degree within four years has risen in the last few years.
Nearly one in five first-year mbo students leave school without a diploma
Drop-out rates in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) range from 10 percent after one year in school to nearly 20 percent after four years.
Pupils from high-income families more often fall back to lower level of education
In the school year 2004/’05, more than185 thousand new pupils were registered in secondary education. Three years later, nearly 26 thousand of them attended the middle management vocational track...
Children from one-parent families more likely to switch to lower school type
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...