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Educational policy is coordinated by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science with municipal governments. Compulsory education (leerplicht) in the Netherlands starts at the age of five, although in practice, most schools accept children from the age of four. From the age of sixteen there is a partial compulsory education (partiële ...
Dutch universities used to offer only four- or five-year courses. Since 2002 most of them now offer three-year undergraduate programmes, leading to a bachelor's degree, and one- or two-year Master's programmes. Old habits remain, partly because stopping after a BSc is seen as "dropping out", and a large majority of university students enroll on ...
Pre-vocational secondary education (Dutch: Voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs, lit. 'preparatory middle-level vocational education', abbr. VMBO) is a school track in the Netherlands. It lasts four years, from the age of twelve to sixteen. It combines vocational training with theoretical education in languages, mathematics, history, arts ...
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated as: AUAS; Dutch: Hogeschool van Amsterdam) is a large vocational university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The AUAS mainly offers bachelor's degree programmes, but also has a number of (professional) master's degree programmes. For students from the AUAS' international partner institutes ...
University of Applied Sciences Leiden (abbreviated as UAS Leiden; Dutch: Hogeschool Leiden ), is a vocational university in the western Netherlands, located in the city of Leiden. It currently has approximately 12,000 students, mainly studying towards associate and bachelor's degrees. The school also offers master's degrees in nursing and ...
Building of Cologne University of Applied Sciences Building of The Hague University of Applied Sciences Building of Breda University of Applied Sciences. A vocational university or university of applied sciences (UAS), less commonly called a polytechnic university [1] is an institution of higher education and increasingly research that provides applied professional education and grants ...
Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs. Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs (VWO, meaning "preparatory scientific education" in Dutch) is the highest variant in the secondary educational system of the Netherlands, attended by approximately a fifth of all Dutch high school students. [1] After leaving primary or elementary school students ...
The training found at the various academies of dramatic arts in the Netherlands comes under the heading Hoger Beroepsonderwijs (HBO), meaning Higher Professional Education. The Toneelacademie Maastricht, institute of performative arts, offers a 4-year Bachelor's programme and a 2-year postgraduate programme leading to a master's degree.