News item | 16-04-2025 | 11:00
Ensuring that children, young people and young adults are resilient so that they can fully participate in society in an ever -changing world. That is what everyone in education, from primary school to university, from educational supporter to teacher, works hard every day. With extra attention to language, arithmetic, citizenship and digital literacy, a strong approach to the teacher shortage and a good connection of education on the labor market, we ensure a stronger foundation. This is necessary, because the state of education 2025 shows that the quality of education is still under pressure. As a result, talent remains unused.
Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science): “The inspection rightly quotes the importance of resilience and citizenship. Equipped and resilient people have the skills to find their way in society. Basic skills ensure that students benefit from and build on the rest of their lives. That is why we also work with much attention to strengthening this.”
State Secretary Mariëlle Paul (Fundend Education and Emancipation): “Despite all the hard works of everyone in education, things are not going well enough in many schools. That is why we are working on a recovery plan and we continue to fight the teacher shortage and the improvement of reading, writing, arithmetic, citizenship and digital literacy. That is now the results of the students in the meantime. be the right way and have to keep course. “