The children who were in grade 8 of primary school last year received lower advice for secondary school than the eighth graders in the years before. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), this is because their final test was canceled due to the corona outbreak. The advice could not be adjusted upwards.
Last year, about 55 percent of children received the advice VMBO-GT (mixed-theoretical learning path) / HAVO, HAVO, HAVO / VWO or VWO. A year earlier this was more than 58 percent, and the year before that too. The remaining 45 percent received advice up to pre-vocational secondary education, while this was more than 41 percent in the preceding years.
The decrease can mainly be seen in girls. By scrapping the final test, they did not have the opportunity to boost the advice. The advice of pupils from lower socio-economic classes has also fallen. The lower the parents’ income, the lower the children’s average advice, the CBS concludes.
In the 2018-2019 school year, almost a quarter of all children received higher school advice thanks to their result on the final test.
Higher advice does not guarantee success, the CBS emphasizes. The researchers see this, for example, in the children whose advice was increased in 2016 after the final test. Three years later, one in five was at a lower level than the final advice.
Primary school students receive lower school advice than in previous years
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