Political Education Plans: Expenses by Subject
How much money do political parties want to invest extra in closing the pay gap between primary and secondary education after the elections? Or for the realization of smaller classes in secondary education and a lower workload in higher education? And where do they take millions away? View the most eye-catching plans per subject from the calculation of the Central Planning Bureau below.
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It contains a laundry list of large and small investments last week published report Choices in Map 2022-2025, in which the Central Planning Bureau has calculated the election programs of ten political parties. The Education magazine grouped together most expenditures (and savings) by subject and education sector. The formulations have been taken from the report itself and have only been abbreviated here and there for the sake of readability.
Investments by topic
Salary improvement, pay gap primary education
Primary and secondary education
D66, GroenLinks, SP, PvdA: teachers in the primary education remuneration in accordance with the collective labor agreement for secondary education. Intensivring: 0,9 mld euro.
Think: wages in it primary education to increase. Intensification: 0,7 mld euro.
Think: wages in disadvantaged schools in the primary and secondary education to increase. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
Christian Union: wages of current teachers in the primary education equalization with the wages of secondary school teachers. These changes in wages are conditional on a new authorization system and associated job classification system for teachers. Intensification: 0,6 mld euro.
Christian Union: salaries of starting teachers in the primary education align with the wages of starting teachers in secondary education, the salaries of teachers in the (secondary special education to be aligned with the salaries of secondary school teachers and the salaries of school leaders in primary education to increase. The resources required for this are made available by means of an increase in the lump sum for primary education. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
PvdA: wages in it primary education increase by 3%. This measure is in addition to aligning the salaries of teachers in primary education with the salaries in secondary education. Intensification: 0,3 mld euro.
PvdA: wages in it secondary education increase by 3%. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro
VVD: increases the lump sum of the primary education to better reward excellent teachers. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro. Increases the lump sum of the secondary education to better reward excellent teachers. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
SGP: wages of starting teachers in the primary education align with the wages of starting teachers in secondary education. The party also wants to increase the salaries of school leaders in primary education. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
CDA: increases the lump sum of the primary education with 0,1 mld euro with the aim of higher salaries and lower workload.
50Plus: wages in it primary and secondary education to increase. Intensification: 0,4 mld euro.
MBO and higher education
D66: wages in it secondary vocational education to increase. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
PvdA: wages in it secondary vocational education en higher education increase by 3%. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
All sectors
D66: wages in all sectors to increase. This measure is in addition to the salary measures for specific primary and secondary vocational education. Intensification: 0,5 mld euro.
Smaller classes
Primary and secondary education
Green Left: increases the lump sum of the primary education to reduce the class size to 21 students. Intensification: 0,3 billion euros in 2025 and 0,9 billion euros structurally.
D66 and SP: increase the lump sum of the primary education to reduce the class size to 23 students. Intensification: 0,2 billion euros in 2025 and structurally 0,6 billion euros.
Think: increases the lump sum of the secondary education to reduce the class size to 25 students. Intensification: 0,3 billion euros in 2025 and structurally 0,5 billion euros.
PvdA: increases the lump sum of the secondary education to make resources available for smaller VMBO classes and more preparation time for teachers. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
Workload
Primary and secondary education
Green Left: lowers the lump sum in it secondary education. The party reduces the number of teaching hours for this from 938 to 800. This one conversion is 0,4 billion euros in 2025 and 1,0 billion euros structurally.
Green Left: increases the lump sum of the secondary education in order to achieve smaller classes in vulnerable schools, a reduction in the workload, an expansion of support staff, an expansion of broad bridging classes and the alignment of salaries in (secondary) special education with the salaries in secondary education. Intensification: 0,6 mld euro.
Christian Union: increases the lump sum of the primary and secondary education with the aim of improving the quality of education. Intensification: 0,3 mld euro.
D66: increases the lump sum of the primary and secondary education to reduce the number of teaching hours for starting teachers and thus the workload. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
MBO and higher education
Green Left: increases the lump sum of the secondary vocational education in order to reduce the workload and to intensify the supervision of students in order to reduce early school leaving. Intensification: 0,4 mld euro.
Green Left: increases the lump sum of the higher education with 0,4 mld euro with a view to lowering the workload.
All sectors
PvdA: increases the lump sum of the primary, secondary, secondary vocational and higher education for extra guidance for starting teachers. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
Professionalization
D66 and ChristenUnie: increase the lump sum of education with the aim of more individual and team training of teachers. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
Suitable education
Green Left: increases the lump sum for suitable education by 0,5 billion euros in 2025. This measure has no structural budgetary effect.
D66: increases the lump sum for suitable education by 0,4 mld euro.
Christian Union: increases the lump sum for suitable education by 0,1 mld euro.
Think: increases the lump sum for suitable and special education by 0,1 mld euro.
Educational disadvantage
D66: increases the budget for educational disadvantage policy by 0,4 mld euro.
PvdA: increases the budget for educational disadvantage policy by 0,4 mld euro.
Think: increases the budget for educational disadvantage policy by 0,2 mld euro.
Reading education
CDA and ChristenUnie: increase the lump sum for primary education with the aim of improving reading education. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
Movement education
SP: increases the lump sum for primary education. The party aims to deploy more teachers for physical education teaching for three hours a week. Intensification: 0,2 mld euro.
CDA: increases the lump sum for primary education with the aim of expanding sports and exercise education. Intensification: 0,1 mld euro.
Public jobs
PvdA: structurally creates 100.000 public jobs, some of which will end up in education and some in the government. In 2025, 40.000 places will be realized. The total budgetary requirement (including the part that ends up with the government) is 1,5 billion euros in 2025 and structurally 4,1 billion euros.
D66: structurally creates 100.000 public jobs, some of which will end up in education and some in the government. In 2025, 30.000 places will be realized. This is (including the part that ends up with the government) one intensification of 1,1 billion euros in 2025, and 4,0 billion euros structurally.
Green Left: creates 20.000 public jobs, some of which will end up in education and some in government. Intensification: 0,8 billion euros, of which 0,4 billion euros in education.
Think: creates 20.000 public jobs, some of which will end up in education and some in government. Intensification: 0,7 billion euros, of which (rounded) 0,4 billion euros in education.
Christian Union: creates 10.000 public jobs of 27 hours a week, half of which ends up in education and the other half in government. This is in total (rounded off) an intensification of 0,3 billion euros, of which 0,1 billion euros in education.
Research / workload in higher education
D66: increases the lump sum for higher education by 1,0 mld euro, with a view to basic research and reducing the workload in higher education.
PvdA: increases the lump sum for higher education by 0,6 mld euro with a view to more fundamental research.
SP: increases the lump sum for higher education by 0,1 mld euro with a view to lowering the application pressure for research funding.
Lump sum for higher education
Green Left: will structurally transfer 0,2 billion euros in 2025 and 0,4 billion euros from indirect funding (subsidies from the NWO and KNAW) to direct funding (the lump sum) for higher education institutions, with a view to more fundamental research. On balance, this measure has no budgetary effect.
PvdA: increases the lump sum for higher education by 0,2 billion euros. The PvdA transfers 0,2 billion euros from indirect funding (subsidies from NWO and KNAW) to direct funding (the lump sum) for higher education institutions. On balance, this measure has no budgetary effect.
SGP: increases the lump sum for higher education by 0,1 mld euro.
VVD: decreases the higher education lump sum with 0,2 mld euro, with the aim of promoting cooperation between institutions and reducing the number of courses.
Basic grant / supplementary grant
SP, PvdA, Denk and 50Plus: reintroduce the basic grant for higher education, students living at home receive approximately EUR 110 per month and students living away from home receive approximately EUR 300 per month. Intensification: 0,3 billion euros in 2025 and 1,2 billion euros structurally.
CDA: Introduction of income-related basic grant, supplementary grant will be abolished. The grant is 600 euros for students living away from home with parents with an aggregate income of up to 37.000 euros, after which the amount of the grant decreases gradually to 300 euros per month for students with parents with an aggregate income of approximately 74.000 euros. For students living at home, the amounts are 450 euros and 150 euros respectively. The CDA is also introducing the repayment rules that applied between 2012 and 2018. Intensification: 0,5 billion euros in 2025 and 1,5 billion euros structurally.
Green Left: introduces a starting capital of 10.000 euros for Dutch residents who turn eighteen years old. This is a intensification of 2,0 billion euros in 2025 and 2,1 billion euros structurally. This is technically assumed 60% of this amount is spent on education and 40% is an expenditure on social security.
Green Left: broadens the supplementary grant so that students with parents with a collective income of up to 100.000 euros are entitled to a supplementary grant. Intensification: 0,1 billion euros in 2025 and 0,4 billion euros structurally.
SGP: broadens the supplementary grant so that students with parents with a collective income of up to 73.000 euros are entitled to a supplementary grant. The income limit for the maximum supplementary grant will be increased from approximately 33.000 euros to 40.800 euros. Intensification: 0,1 billion euros in 2025 and 0,2 billion euros structurally.
D66: broadens the supplementary grant so that students with parents with a collective income of up to approximately 70.000 euros are still entitled to a supplementary grant. Intensification: 0,1 billion euros in 2025 and 0,2 billion euros structurally.
Compensation student loan system
Green Left retroactively grants a starting capital of 10.000 euros to students who fell under the student loan system. Intensification: 3,1 billion euros in 2025. In total, the intensification amounted to 7,7 billion euros during the cabinet term.
SP: allocates a cumulative amount of 4,2 billion euros during the cabinet period to retroactively grant students who fell under the student loan system a basic grant for people living at home. Intensification: 1,7 billion euros in 2025, the structural intensification is zero euros.
PvdA allocates a cumulative amount of 4,0 billion euros during the cabinet term for a compensation scheme to be worked out in more detail for students who fell under the student loan system. This is stepping up 1,6 billion euros in 2025; the structural intensification is zero euros.
Think: allocates a cumulative amount of 2,0 billion euros during the cabinet term for a compensation scheme to be worked out in more detail for students who fell under the student loan system. Intensification: 0,8 billion euros in 2025, the structural intensification is zero euros.
CDA: pulls 0,1 mld euro for the benefit of a compensation scheme to be worked out in more detail for students who fell under the student loan system.
Tuition fees
D66: Abolishes institutional tuition fees for the second bachelor's and master's degree programs, students pay the statutory tuition fees. With this measure, the government subsidizes the tuition fees of students who follow a second study. Stepping up: from 0,1 billion euros in 2025. The structural intensification is 0,2 mld euro.
VVD: Halves the statutory tuition fees for the bachelor's degree for science, technology, teacher and care training. Stepping up 0,3 mld euro. The VVD will abolish the arrangement for halving tuition fees in the first year. This is a change of 0,2 billion euros.
Green Left: abolishes the regulation for halving tuition fees in the first year. This is a change of 0,2 billion euros.
Source: Central Planning Bureau, Choices in Map 2022-2025
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