Record number of dropouts in Dutch VET
18-09-2023 | During the 2021/22 academic year, the Netherlands saw a significant increase in early departures from Initial Vocational Education and Training (VET), with 30,242…
Netherlands: Future educational needs: have classical demarcations outlived themselves?
The quality of vocational education (VET) and higher education in the Netherlands is currently good, but is it prepared for the future? The Minister for…
Doe mee aan onderzoek naar microcredentials
Microcredentials zijn bewijzen van competenties en andere leerervaringen, en zijn kleiner dan traditionele diploma’s. In verschillende Europese landen loopt tegelijk onderzoek naar de relevantie van…
Utrecht: first city to admit VET learners to the introduction week
This year, for the first time VET learners were welcome to participate in Utrecht’s introduction week – the UIT Week. Introduction weeks take place before…
Netherlands: Low number of Ukrainian refugees in Dutch VET
The devastating effects of the war in Ukraine have forced millions of Ukrainian citizens to flee their country. Like other European countries, the Netherlands have…
Netherlands: Your school got hacked? ROC Mondriaan VET college has the answer
In August 2021, a week before the start of the new school year, one of the Netherlands’ largest VET colleges, Regionaal Opleidingen Centrum (Regional Education…
What Europe is doing for Ukraine refugees
Members of the Refernet network have inventoried the measures European countries are taking to support Ukrainian refugees through vocational training and entry into the labour…
Show Europe your project on green skills!
What: 6th edition of European Vocational Skills week When: May 16-20, 2022 Find your European audience at the European Vocation Skills Week (EVSW) and compete…
Consequences COVID-19 measures for education and training
23-12-2021 – The coronavirus crisis has drastically changed daily reality for VET students: online lessons, remote guidance, keeping 1.5 metres distance from their fellow students…
Dutch VET student discovers new butterfly species
10-11-2021 – During her internship in Naturalis, the natural history museum in Leiden, 18-year-old VET student Noortje Looijenga discovered a new butterfly species. Noortje, a…