CBS: Throughput of MBO-HBO declined since 2005
The proportion of MBO-4 students who move on to a higher vocational education program has fallen from 42 percent in 2005 to 35 percent in 2016. MBO students with a non-Western migration background are proportionally more likely to transfer to higher professional education.
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That is evident today a message from Statistics Netherlands. 45 percent of non-Western MBO students with a level 4 diploma moved on to HBO in 2016. In 2005 this was 55 percent. A year and a half ago, 4 percent of the native Dutch MBO 34 students made the step to further education, compared to 2005 percent in 40.
Once at higher vocational education, MBO students with a non-Western background do significantly worse: barely three out of ten students who started a full-time higher professional education program in 2011 had their diploma after five years. This was half for native Dutch former MBO students.
Interrupted
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The downward trend was interrupted in 2012 by a brief increase in 2013 and 2014. At that time, the introduction of the loan system (in 2015) was already in the air and students consciously chose to start a study just under the old rules.
In 2015, MBO transfer to HBO clearly declined. The dip was relatively strongest among immigrant students. In 2016 the line will rise again gently.
More successful
From earlier CBS research it turned out last year that MBO students from a family with a higher income more often move on to higher professional education and are more successful there than MBO students from families with middle or lower incomes.
Statistics Netherlands' figures do not in themselves say anything about the number of immigrant students in higher professional education. The Association of Universities of Applied Sciences figured two years ago that the proportion of students with a migration background had increased in the previous ten years. This development also continued in 2015.
