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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments since 2021.

The introduction of the chapter describes the overall education strategy and the key objectives across the whole education system. It also looks at how the education reform process is organized and who are the main actors in the decision-making process.

Key features of the Dutch Education System

  • 8 years of primary education (age 4 – 12)
  • compulsory education: starts age 5, ends age 18
  • selection at age 12
  • highly diversified lower secondary education
  • two out of six streams lead to higher education
  • four out of six streams lead to upper vocational education
  • several routes through system

2024

No recent reforms and policy developments.

2023

Extra resources for social projects linking VET and the labour market

26-04-2023

2024

Cabinet invests €22 million in lifelong development from Growth Fund

2024

New agreements on good education on St Eustatius

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