News item | 10-05-2022 | 11:58
The Secondary Education Act (WVO) and the Secondary Education Act BES (WVO BES) will be replaced by one new law: the WVO 2020. The law will come into effect on August 1, 2022.
Better readable and clearer
Substantively nothing changes. The law has been made more readable and the division of the chapters is clearer.
Also decisions merged
All decisions based on the WVO are also merged, in the Implementing Decree WVO 2020. Examples are it VO . final exam decision and the design decision†
All main rules in 1 law and 1 decree
All main rules for secondary education will be easier to find from now on, because they will soon be contained in 1 decree and 1 law.
No substantive consequences for schools
There are no substantive consequences for schools, because the content of the law and the decree does not change in substance. At most, the school guide and the website will have to be adjusted if they refer to the old rules.
In order to be able to adjust those references before 1 August 2022, schools can use the transposition table.
The new text of the WVO 2020 and the WVO2020 Implementation Decree can be found from 1 August 2022 at www.wetten.nl†
Do you have questions? You can ask this by sending an email to the secondary education directorate of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science:
