Two nominations Education Magazine for prize for Education Journalism
The Education Magazine has been nominated for the 2016 Education Journalism Prize with two articles. On January 27, 2017, during the National Education Exhibition in the Jaarbeurs, the jury will announce the winners.
The two articles that the jury nominated are: Hundreds of millions are leaving primary education by Robert Sikkes (Education Magazine 17 of 31 October 2015) and The hunted toddler by Joëlle Poortvliet and Robert Sikkes (Education magazine 6 of 19 March 2016).
Nominated articles
The article 'Hundreds of millions are leaving primary education' describes how money disappears from this sector. The reason for the story was that Secretary of State for Education Sander Dekker could not demonstrate that the extra jobs he had promised had been created. The article shows that the money has largely disappeared. No additional jobs have been created and the ongoing contraction is resulting in high unemployment costs. There are fewer repeaters and more students skip a class. This success costs school boards money and the weighting scheme has been adjusted, so that schools receive less extra money for pupils with an extra weight.
The second article: The hunted toddler is about staying in kindergarten. Researchers and State Secretary Dekker find that sitting down is a blunt instrument. Moreover, expensive. But are those researchers looking at complex questions that kindergarten teachers grapple with? The article explains that many researchers ignore the practical knowledge of teachers. That knowledge plays an important role in making the decision to stay put.
Other nominations
In addition to the Education magazine, five other journalists have been nominated. Laura van Baars (Trouw) 'The double end of the Aloysius', Ronald Buitelaar (Versbeton.nl) 'How the small-scale MBO schools in Rotterdam ultimately did not come', Floor Bal (Ad Valvas) with the article a 'A nine is no longer nine', Anja Vink (De Correspondent) 'Forget the complaining high school student. Something is really wrong with the VMBO exam' and Johannes Visser (De Correspondent) 'Education2032. A textbook example of sham participation.'
The Education Prize is awarded every year by the Education Journalism Stimulation Foundation, COCMA Education Fund and the Education Council.
