Eppo Bruins (1969) has been nominated to succeed outgoing minister Robbert Dijkgraaf (D66). Dijkgraaf is accountable for secondary vocational training, larger skilled training and scientific training. He appreciated to emphasise the equality of these forms of training and obtained appreciation for this. It’s apparent that the following minister may also mix these training sectors.
Fewer college students
As a Member of the Home of Representatives, Bruins stated in a web-based debate in 2020 that maybe too many younger individuals are going to larger training. “As a rustic, we’re depending on the alternatives of seventeen-year-olds, whereas we have now main issues sustaining our incomes capability sooner or later,” he stated. And likewise: ‘Are sufficient individuals nonetheless going to secondary vocational training to study bricklaying and carpentry?’
In 2023 pleaded Bruins for an equal place of upper vocational training and educational coaching. In response to him, because the flip of the millennium, the Netherlands has positioned an excessive amount of emphasis on sending extra individuals to college as a substitute of higher educating the workforce as a complete. This error has led to skewed progress, disrupting the steadiness between universities, faculties and vocational training, Bruins stated.
