DVHN comments | It has been known for years that too few professionals are trained. The new cabinet should finally pay more attention to the manufacturing industry

Doekle Terpstra, VNO-NCW board member and chairman of Technology Netherlands, will urge education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf for an action plan for technology education. According to him, installation technicians are ‘the new elite of the Netherlands’. They must help realize all of the government’s climate plans in the coming years. But there are far too few of them.