Mbo boys more often than girls go to higher vocational education
Boys are more likely than girls to take the leap from secondary vocational education to higher vocational education, new figures show. And that while girls ultimately have a better chance of obtaining their diploma.
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It remains striking that boys perform so much worse in education than girls. They attend HAVO or VWO less often and therefore study less often. Once in higher education, boys are less likely to succeed.
The picture is the same in MBO. There, half of the boys follow a training at the highest level, reports the CBS today, while that is no less than 60 percent among girls.
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It does not seem to be their ambition. When boys have their MBO-4 diploma in their pocket, they make the step to HBO more often than girls. 41 percent of them do this, against 37 percent of girls (up to 25 years old).
With the abolition of the basic grant, fewer MBO students went to higher education, but the difference between boys and girls has not changed significantly: boys have always been more likely to continue.
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The figures do not show why girls move on less often. It won't be their talent. Once in higher professional education, girls cross the finish line more often (and faster) than boys.
This has been shown for years by figures from the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences on study success. Of all MBO girls who started HBO in 2013, 48 percent obtained their diploma within five years. This was 39 percent among boys.
The gap is even wider among Havists: after five years, 38 percent of boys are ready, against 60 percent of girls.
