Fewer opportunities for MBO students with a migration background
MBO students with a migration background - just like students with low-educated parents - have less chance of obtaining a diploma than other students. Finding an internship and ultimately a job is also more difficult for MBO students with a migrant background: they have an 11 percent lower chance of finding a job than other students.
That is one of the most important conclusions for MBO from the report published today 'The State of Education'. 'It is the task of education to contribute as much as possible to eliminating undesirable differences between school careers, both within the study program and in connection with the internship and labor market', according to the Education Inspectorate.
Issues
The report states that immigrant MBO students who follow the BOL education, where they mainly go to school and do internships, have 31 percent more problems finding an internship than students without a migration background (22 percent). Girls with a headscarf in particular are faced with prejudices, just like Moroccan boys.
Students with a Dutch background are also more likely (about 85 percent) to obtain a diploma than students with a non-Western background (about 75 percent). The difference has increased especially at the highest MBO level 4. Finding a job is a lot more difficult for non-native MBO students. 6 percent of MBO students with a Dutch background who have completed a BOL education are still unemployed after one year. This applies to more than 20 percent of the BOL graduates with a non-Western migrant background.
Shared responsibility
According to AObdirector Tamar van Gelder, the internship and the connection to the labor market is a shared responsibility of education and the business community. “The business community must feel addressed and take action. Education can do this through good career guidance that is geared to various subjects at the MBO institution. Teaching teams can also mediate more with internships instead of placing that responsibility entirely on the student. ”
The business community must feel engaged and take action
Another point that the Inspectorate points out is that one in ten lessons in MBO is not in order. Less than half of the students also indicate that the lessons are challenging, which shows that there is still more room for improvement. In addition, schools are insufficiently capable of assessing their own educational quality.
No time
Van Gelder: “Teachers would like to professionalise, but they don't have time for it from the school, according to the State of the Teacher, the report which is also published today. Compared to other educational sectors, teachers in secondary vocational education most often indicate that they do not have time for it. It comes in first, because there is already so much on the teachers' plate. But there is certainly a direct relationship between good lessons and teachers who practice professionalisation. Schools must facilitate this. ”
