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Higher vocational education (HBO) The 43 HBO institutions in the Netherlands together offer 200 programmes in a wide range of disciplines. They provide theoretical and practical training for occupations for which a higher vocational qualification is either required or useful.
Students are eligible to enter a university if they hold VWO certificates or HBO propaedeutic certificates which are conferred at the end of the first year of HBO courses. In some cases there are additional requirements of specific courses that must be completed at the secondary education level to be admitted to the university.
27 lis 2023 · To be recognised, fully privately-funded higher education institutions need to be approved by the Education Inspectorate and the Netherlands-Flanders Accreditation Organisation (NVAO). The certificates they award to graduates are equivalent to those awarded by publicly-funded institutions.
The Dutch educational system in divided in 2 ways. ⇒ Further education after secondary school (high school): according to level: mbo (ROC), hbo (HAN University of Applied Sciences) or university (Radboud University).
If you do not qualify for student finance, you may be eligible for another scheme: grant or subsidy for a teacher training course (information in Dutch) grant for teachers studying at HBO or university (information in Dutch) lifelong learning credit.
If you complete the first year completely and successfully (obtain the 60ECTS) of a bachelor’s degree at an University of Applied Sciences, you will get the so-called HBO-Propedeuse (HBO-P) certificate, with this certificate you can apply for a bachelor’s degree at the University of Twente.
The basic grant is a gift if you are in MBO level 1 (‘entrée-opleiding’) or 2. For MBO level 3 or 4, HBO, and university programmes, the basic grant is a ‘performance grant’. This means the basic grant becomes a gift if you obtain your diploma within 10 years.
