16 - Netherlands - Educational/vocational guidance, education/employment links
Guidance
Students enrolled on HBO courses have a right to guidance. The administration of the institution has a
duty to pay particular attention to the guidance of ethnic minority students. The Expertise Centre for
Ethnic Minorities in Higher Education (ECHO) supports higher education institutions in their efforts to
provide guidance and assistance for this category of students with a view to boosting the number of
ethnic minority students and graduates in higher education and reducing the dropout rate.
The Platform Bèta Techniek was set up by the government in 2004
to ensure a sufficient supply of well-qualified people with a background in science and technology. It is
also responsible for bringing together authoritative expertise from the worlds of business, education
and research and acting as ambassador for the government’s Delta Plan, which is designed to prevent
a shortage of knowledge workers, especially in science and technology.
Higher professional education
Relationship with the labour market
Close contacts between HBO institutions and the labour market are extremely important. Such
contacts occur at both national and individual course level.
Each year a national survey of the employment position of HBO graduates, known as the HBO
Monitor, is carried out by the Council for Higher Professional Education
University education
Relationship with the labour market
University studies prepare students for research training and for occupations in which it is useful to
have an academic background. Only a small proportion of graduates (around 10%) are eventually
employed in research. Some full-time courses include a compulsory placement.
The universities, like the HBO institutions, monitor the position of their graduates on the labour market
by means of an annual survey first held in 1998. The results are announced every year in the
Universities Monitor.
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Date: 2009
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