Good job opportunities for HBO teachers, but not for dancers
Nine higher professional education teacher training courses offer the best start on the labor market, according to the benefits agency UWV. Healthcare managers also have a very good starting position.
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That is stated a report from the UWV about the job market for graduates of higher professional education. These are teachers of physics and chemistry, technology, mathematics and biology, but also teachers of Dutch, English, German and French.
They find a job in no time, quickly have a permanent contract and their income is relatively high. Just outside the top 10 are technical higher professional education programs, but nurses and teachers in primary education also have little to complain about their entry into the labor market.
Artists
The UWV has less cheerful news for dancers, artists, musicians and actors, who rarely get a permanent contract and also have to look for a job of some size for much longer (at least three days a week and a reasonable salary).
European studies and tourism are also in the top 5 of higher vocational education programs with a very poor starting point on the labor market. Other subjects in the tail end of the ranking are journalism, speech therapy, nutrition & dietetics and the hotel school.
The UWV is based on research by weekly magazine Elsevier and research agency SEO and has applied its own analyzes. The data itself comes from Statistics Netherlands. It is not a sample, but an analysis of all graduates.
Risers
The benefits agency also looked at the labor market position after 10 years. Then 79 percent have a permanent job. Shortly after graduation, this was only the case for half. The salary also rises: on average by 37 percent. Alumni of the hotel school are among the fastest risers, while primary school teachers make little progress in salary.
After those ten years, graduates of the aviation sky high course are at the top, followed by mathematics teachers and technical business experts. Dancers are still dangling at the bottom, and journalists and graduates in tourism courses are no big deal either.
The PABO graduates are off to a good start, but in ten years' time they see others pass left and right: their position on the labor market is changing to 'moderate', the UWV concludes. Although they often have a permanent job, their annual income is low.
