In the Netherlands only a small number of male students opt for primary school teaching and a relatively large percentage of them leave without graduating. A small-scale research project was set up to explore the question: Can gender-specific student factors be identified in relation to the initial teacher …

De wil om het onderwijs te vernieuwen wordt breed gedragen. Scholen worstelen immers met dropout- en motivatieproblemen bij leerlingen, het traditionele onderwijs sluit niet aan bij de manier waarop hedendaagse kinderen kennis en informatie opdoen in hun eigen digitale wereld, de schoolpopulatie wordt …

This paper reports on CATS (2006-2007), a project initiated by the Research Centre ‘Teaching in Multicultural Schools’, that addresses language related dropout problems of both native and non-native speakers of Dutch in higher education. The project’s main objective is to develop a model for the redesign …