I'm from the Netherlands I know the school system... Why am I watching this

This reminds me of how much the American educational system needs to be fixed.

So esthetically pleasing to look at! Amazingly edited :D Also... You need a bicycle diploma? O.o

This explains why everyone was confused over the fact I didn't know how to ride a bike at fifteen when I visited the Netherlands.

Never thought a Dutch person could explain this shit😂 I’m Dutch and I find it hard 😂

Ik was dus echt vergeten dat het verkeersexamen een nationaal iets is XD dat examen was zo'n chaos bij mijn klas, maar zo hilarisch

Hey! Its pretty cool to see some Dutch people in the art community! Geinig.

I quickly want to say, after Mavo you can actually choose if you want to do 2 years of Havo to go to HBO instead of just going to MBO. Same with HAVO.

Lol, you’re from Noord-Brabant or Limburg, as a fellow dutchie i can hear those accents from miles away

I got lost after the basic school part ... 😭😭😭 it confuse me the way it's divided so complicated but it seems that the Dutch has a great system :)

Eindelijk een manier om mn engelse vrienden uit te leggen hoe het nederlandse educatie systeem werkt, hardstikke bedankt!! Daarnaast

Eventough I'm dutch it was fun to watch :D

Yuunarii, you have successfully once again kept your audience well engaged and learned about the structure of the Dutch education system. Something the US education system would greatly benefit in implementing a similar to the Dutch system. Anyways, keep up the good work 👌

Ik dacht dat ik het zwaar had op de basisschool. Boy was I wrong

One of my favorite parts of living in the Netherlands, was that we lived in front of a college, so every morning, groups of 20-40 teens on their bikes would flood the surrounding streets. I mean, the bike parking had like 200 spots.

lol, when I scrolled over the thumbnail, I just saw Yuu bicycling on a car and thought "This is gonna be a good video"

The visuals on this video is really good. And the eurobeat jokes too.

Top video, maar ik heb wel het gevoel dat pakketkeuzes (in het geval van VWO vanaf het 4e leerjaar) hier ook in had moeten zitten. Een E&M leerling krijgt een heel andere carrière dan een N&T leerling. Ik snap wel dat de video dan misschien iets te lang zou worden :)

I'm Dutch and I still found this incredibly useful. I Basically just bumbled my way trough high school and college. XD

I learnt so much from this. Thanks for a friendly, steady-paced and pleasant video

Wait, so you go to school to actually have a life, and not pass a god damn test? Oh God how lucky you are, Yuunarii.

For those who had trouble understanding their own national equivalents of the different options, in other countries: - MBO is also often referred to as 'Vocational school/education' - HBO is also often referred to as 'University of applied sciences'

Isn't it a bit young to give a child the responsibility to pick an education route that they most likely would change their attitude towards throughout their teens or adolescence?

*take cito tests* *"you are 12 when you take the Cito test"* Am 10 when I make the Cito tests Aight then

You know that they both call schools where you can get a bachelor degree and master degree a university. It's rather complicated to compare it with the American standards though. Lower than a bachelor degree is mostly useless in the US, but in the Netherlands an MBO degree can get you a decent paying job comparable to some HBO jobs. The US assosiance degrees and an MBO degree are quite different.

In the Netherlands we also have tvwo, where you have almost all subjects in English. Tvwo translates to bilingual Preparing scientific education.

I think you've made a great video at categorizing how the education system works :) It's really difficult to properly explain, as our system is pretty complicated in the sense that multiple acronyms exist in the Netherlands that aren't so much a thing in other countries worldwide, the amount of levels in highschool for example, as well as HBO and Uni differences. However, there are some things that I thought are in need of some clarification though.This doesn't mean that this is criticism, no! In fact, see this as an addition of sorts ;p For example: difficulty is probably not the right term for the level of study that needs to be done in the categorized levels. I think it's a matter of different focus. You are completely right about the possible paths that can be taken, but this explanation makes it sound as if LWOO and VMBO BB/KB isn't all that hard. In fact, these kids go through hectic and tough education that's more craftsmanship-centered, where calculus and several woodworking/building etc. skills are incorporated. The amount of 'to be learned' study matter is theoretically different, not so much easier. That's very subjective. To put this into context: a few weeks ago, there's been an actual crackdown on stigmatizing of these levels. Call it progress, which I think it is. Second: HAVO and VWO students can freely choose between HBO and Uni, especially VWO. They can choose HBO if they like it, so as you explained, this is very true. Sadly: these options are sometimes looked down upon by society and (sometimes) schools (breaks my heart). However, once HBO students have been rewarded with propedeuse (meaning: having cleared first year), they're allowed to enter Uni. After HBO, when having reached bachelor degree, they are also free to enter University Mastercourses through certain programs called pre-master if they so please. This is a link people tend to miss a lot. Lastly: of course all these HBO courses have different types of supervision. Mine was wonderful. Subjectivism is something you have to watch out for, as you discredit entire systems, which is probably not what you've meant, but hey, Dutch folks are very quick to call you out on this of course. -signed: a teacher.

*Stops watching the channel for some time* *Looks at this video* OH GOD THE QUALITY HAS IMPROVED A LOT!

Woah a dutch animation channel?! You just earned yourself a new sub :) I'm from Curaçao and we also have the dutch education system here and I couldn't have asked for a better one. I just got my final exam results last week and I'm about to graduate in two weeks and earn my Havo diploma ^-^

i like how the secondary education routes look like: WWDT FFU UUS OOEQ Pakngkzeowbyzfoi UIER

Gah, I keep recognizing 'almost' German in the Dutch terms with my crappy second language German education. Like how 'Hoger Algemeen Voortgezet Onderwijs' could be interpreted as 'Höher Allgemein Fortgesetzte Unter-wis(sen)'. Woo Germanic languages.

I didn't pass my cycling exam 😂

I decided to watch this because I wanted to go on a foreign exchange student trip to Netherlands and i was curious how school would work. Now I'm curious what process I would have to go through if I were to be placed in the Netherlands 🤔

Bedankt voor de uitleg! The Dutch integration exam now requires a section on Dutch cultural knowledge which includes a fair amount of knowing the education system and I could never keep it straight. This helps me keep everything in order!

Haha ik ben zelf Nederlands en het was echt heel grappig om dit een keer in het Engels te horen! 😂

I'm suddenly very aware of how damn detailed our education system is, heck.

Why am I watching this I already know it😂

HBO is NOT the equivelent of college. It is equivelant to a university of applied sciences. The difference between a research uni and one of applied sciences? The research uni's bachelors degree is worthless and students are meant to go for their masters. Applied sciences bachelors degrees are much more specialised and get more real-world experience (the 'applied' part). They're roughly equal in time spent, but not even close to equal in value on the job market.

I've always been told that MBO was college and higher was university like this: WO = academic university HBO = University of applied science MBO = college Is that incorrect? It might also be useful to add some job examples per education level as I know

This just made me realize that I need to study NOW in order to stay on havo

I have never actually done the cycling exam, our teacher was just like “Here are the rules, and we’re going to our camp next tuesday, so then you can try it”

Wow that's really complex. But I think it's better having options to choose than someone saying that you should know everything before choosing something that has nothing to do with the subjects you were obligated to learn.

I just found out that my old school probably wanted to send me to LWOO (or praktijkonderwijs) because of my really bad social skills... I changed schools and they gave me VWO. Welp.

Nice vid i am dutch myself love how you can hear your accent when you speak dutch goed gedaan😁

Thanks for this! I'm half Dutch living in the UK and I'd like to move to the Netherlands one day...

Amazing video. Never knew Dutch school was completely different from American school.

En daaronder valt nog de KEKVO, ofwel Knippen En Knutselen Voor Onnozelen. :)

Gymnasium???

I’m Dutch and I know how it works but when you see it in a video like this, it’s pretty complicated. I can’t imagine how it would be for someone who moves to the Netherlands. It was a great video for people who don’t know how it works. And I also enjoyed it.😋

I looked up the wikipedia page about this cuz I was reading a webtoon, called "acception" I think it was, and it was set in a Dutch "high school". The fact that they called it high school was confusing since I didn't think people in other countries would have the same system the US has. :v The wikipedia page just made me more confused lmao.

I kinda wished I learned this way, probably would have been more engaged in school if I did. And no I don't think we learn that traffic class here in America, or at least not in my state although cities/school are pretty bunched together here and also school buses.

Great video! As a Dutch person I already understood most of it, I don't rlly know about other Voortgezet Onderwijs things, but I do know a lot about havo and vwo, so I will explain vwo first, just more in depth. vwo exists of many parts, Atheneum : the basic vwo Gymnasium : basic vwo + latin and greek TTO : basic vwo, but everthing's in English and you will take different trips to different countries. Havo is just one thing, but, you can take havo/vwo classes for your first year, after that year, the school will decide if you go to havo or vwo in the second year. That was my knowledge on the subject, I myself am finishing Basis School, I'm really close to the Cito tests, but my overall school advice is vwo. They actually give you the advice in group 7, not much will change after the Cito tests, you can only go higher. But I've talked enough. Hope this was of any use.

Me: *Studies at VWO* Me: *Wants to be a teacher* Also me: *I hate school* Again me: *Goes to HBO after finishing highschool*

I was born in Aruba and my native language is papiamento. Its our language that we speak at home with are family and on the street. But we also have a Dutch education system and all lessons and subjects are in Dutch. And in class we speak dutch to teachers. Its good because we learn more languages as Dutch,English,Spanish,French and you can grow as a person.But sometimes the exams can be difficult for us because the same test they get we get. And sometimes we don't get the meaning of the questions or we interpreted the questions in the wrong way and sometimes its a bit difficult to express yourself. Sorry if my grammer is bad :)

I'm Dutch but I have 2 American friends. Every time I tried to explain the Dutch school system, they didn't understand and I wasn't very good at explaining it. This video really helped, Thank you!!

I am Dutch and i have no idea how to comepare the Dutch education system with the American education system. Like in what grade are you if you have VWO in voortgezet onderwijs

With all these letters combined with one and other I felt like I was in chemistry class

Weewou! Een andere nederlander! Dit is een goeie uitleg, ik kan het niet beter!

There are multiple forms of LWOO, not just for VMBO but also for Havo and VWO. It’s not just for students who have some trouble with subjects, but also for students who simply are too smart for regular education, who have trouble at home which results in shitty grades, who are hard to handle for teachers (fighting, autistic kids, etc), or people with mental illnesses/depressions.

Note: In Friesland (A Province in the Netherlands) the Cito is just a test, it doesn’t tell you where you’ll go in Middelbare school. We have a thing that keeps track of your grades from group 6-8 this will tell you what level you’ll have. To be honest I’m happy that exists because I did terrible at the Cito test -w-

I'm Dutch and I didn't even know some the things you mentioned in this video XD

I am dutch, and going to VWO. 😂 Good to know what would be next. Thanks!

Not only was this video aesthetically pleasing, but the information itself was well said and concise. Aside from the fact that you need to get a biking diploma (which is similar to how Americans go through drivers safety in high school), the Dutch seem to have a great grasp on the education system as a whole and is well rounded and diverse with many options to choose from in regards to how you finish high school and college. Dutch College and American college are Almost the same, but high school is completely different. You didn't really talk about it much but the American system is pretty test oriented, meaning what classes we're allowed to take and even what colleges we go to are determined by a single test. Americans have something called the ACT test in our second to last year in high school and if you do good on the test then you can basically get into any college you want, but if you do bad then most doorways are closed off to you automatically. I'm not saying the American system is bad, but it could take some pointers from the Dutch. Great informative and pleasing video, in fact this video is the reason I just subscribed to you so thank you for that.

one flaw is that if you’re a late bloomer, your future is doomed. You have to mature insanely early to find success in this system. coming from a late bloomer, which is doomed to some long years building my failures back up.

Het is echt leuk Om iemand to zien die een yt kanaal heeft over die dingen echt leuk!

I went through the dutch education system I don't think it's a good education system. I don't think that your average grade in basic school combined with the cito test should determine what level of education you will follow. I think it's flawed and puts students in this category, it basically tells students if they don't have good grades or do well on tests they are not smart enough to study the higher levels of education. I actually had bad grades in basic school and had a lower score on the cito test. When I was in group 7 my teachers actually told me I shouldn't take the cito test at all because they knew I couldn't do better than getting into VMBO BB (which is the lowest level of VMBO). Fortunately my mother refused to listen to them and made me take the cito tets anyway. I got a higher score than they expected but still not great, so I was sent to VMBO KB which is just one level higher. I honestly believed I was stupid and lost all motivation to study and barely put any effort into school, so naturally I got bad grades. Something I also noticed in my high school of about 5500 students is that the fast majority went to VMBO. Fast forward a few years later I moved to Canada and I felt like this was my chance to start over. I was so shocked when I was allowed to pick my own classes based on my interest. I started to take classes that I would have never been able to study in The Netherlands such as physics and chemistry. I learned how to love studying and got good grades, I went on to get principal rolls and honor rolls. I graduated high school and went to university to study psychology and sciences, something I could never imagine doing in The Netherlands. Anyway my point is that it's not just black and white. There is a lot of factors that can make a student to bad at school and test don't determine what someone is capable of. So putting students in a category and limiting their choices only reinforces this narrow view. I think that students should be allowed to study what they like and not be but in levels of education. How would you know a student doesn't succeed in something if you don't allow them to study it in the first place. I also think that I was not as capable of understanding difficult subject at 12. I am a slower learner and I started to understand maths and sciences better when I was 16. So it's mind blowing how this test that you take at 12 determines what you study for the rest of your high school career.

"the netherlands has a small size" you haven't seen belgium yet

Nu kan ik deze video naar mijn internetvrienden sturen haha, dan snappen ze het eindelijk

To Dutch people, I’d like to know as a foreigner: How do kids feel or process their test results when they have to choose their next education? Are there stigmas or psychological consequences on kids with “lower difficulty” education? I’m asking this because I have ADHD, and as a kid I really struggled with having good grades, I’m now at uni on my country, but I always thought that if I treated my deficit earlier, I could’ve achieved more…. How do people with ADHD work on this educational system?

While the amount of options is fascinating it's super convoluted. Our school system can use some work but is generally a straight line. Elementary: Age 2-5 preschool (essentially social learning) 5-6 kindergarten (entry skills letters, numbers, writing and reading) Grade 1 - 3 division one Grade 4 - 6 division two Jr high: Grade 7 - 9 Highschool: Grade 10-12 Post: Continuing education (usually 1 year programs to pick up extra skills like typing, higher reading and such) Certificate college (low level job specific programs such as secretary, florist...) College (higher level diplomas and transfer programs like development therapist) University (2-8 years for your big programs, teacher, doctor) Technical institution (trade learning. Repair jobs, construction, design...) Apprenticeship school (extra learning on stuff that can't be learned on the job) Within all of that we then have public, private, religious, residential and bilingual.

There is ONE thing harder than VWO: TTO (tweetalig onderwijs (bilangual education)) It's like VWO but then nearly EVERYTHING is in english so you will end up speaking english during dutch lessons. And you get like 4 more lessons a week and TONS of homework.

If you finished HAVO3 is it aloud to do every mbo, but youre not getting a diploma of “middelbare school”

I'm dutch and its funny to see this! Now, on this moment, I am on the Voortgezet onderwijs (secondary school)

I'm sending this to my internet friends bc they don't understand it when I just tell them. Good job! You just earned a new subscriber!!!❤️

Super cool, very nice to look at! One little thing I noticed: peuterspeelzaal is from their 2nd birthday, until their 4th birthday. Not 0-3, we would call that a creche or kinderdagverblijf. That is more like daycare, but kids going there can skip the peuterspeelzaal, because they already get the "play, share, take turns" stuff.

I Would Love To Have Bicycle Diploma!!! *GIMMMEEEEEE*

Seems more complex system compared to England's Education System. It also sounds like you have to work your ass off more in the Netherlands than you do here in England.

the difference between HAVO and VMBO is as i can confirm great in grading i mean i am a 1st grade HAVO dropout because i couldn't keep up and now as i am taking final exams i am scoring 8th and 9th (pretty high) left and right

I am Dutch and wow, pretty good explaination! There is indeed a gap between mavo and havo which is quite irritating if you are a vwo student trying to explain why your "i have a lot of homework/have a difficult subject in said language" is different from theirs.

I live in the Netherlands and I'm now attending High School, at my school there are another two routes who are ABOVE VWO, Atheneum and Gymnasium, Gymnasium is basically VWO but with Latin and Greek, Atheneum is I believe VWO (for every class in every level you get a grade for how you work in class.) If you're a low grade for something, the teachers will look if you work hard in class. If you didn't do your best in class and have a bad grade, then you are easier than other levels to re-do the year or to go to a lower difficulty

god i wish i could crash my car while listening to eurobeat

I was just imagining a cat driving a golf truck...When 1:27 then I got excited.

I think the system is great but it really fucked me over ':D (if you don't like profanity maybe don't read this) everyone who talked to me for more than 5 minutes knows I belong in a VWO school, buuut I was bullied during the cito test with my misophonia (mental disorder making certain sounds unbearable. You could give me a panic attack by sniffing your nose) so I got HAVO advice. Lucky me I went to a particularly bad school and the teachers bullied me. They told me I was worthless and I shouldn't bother showing up. So I didn't. It came to a point it was special for me to attend an entire day. And eventhough I still knew everything in the books, I couldn't be fucked making the tests. The school therapist tried to make something of me, but her sessions revolved more around her than me. So that didn't help. The principle asked me if I even wanted to be at the school, but it was quite obvious that I didn't want to be there. So they just send me to a VMBO-T. I wish I was transferred to another HAVO, but this was all they could do for the piece of shit they made me. I'm doing better now, but I really wish I wasn't in this VMBO-T school. But oh well. I am going to a HAVO and a VWO school after this because everyone around me knows I can only get a job I can keep without shooting my skull out with a VWO education. Sorry to rant there.

I do something called HTL. Our school is the only school to have it. It takes 4 to 6 years depending on what you choose. You just follow vmbo but with extra havo things to make it harder. After 4 years you can choose to attend havo, but instead of going to havo 5, you are going to have 4.

You can also get a WO master with a HBO bachelor. Most universities require that you complete a pre-master's program of 0.5-1 years.

Everytime someone asks me from now on i'll send them here😉 (Goeie video hoor👍🏼)

I wonder if the education system has changed since my dad was in school, as he was born and lived in the Netherlands until age 30. He told me his "elementary school" had only 6 teachers, one for each grade, and then he had to bike 20 miles to "high school" and 20 miles back.

Fuck. The effort you fucking put in here is amazing keep on doing more work I'll bet you'll grow big through the effort and editing that is present in the videos you make...

I finaly found a video i can send to people when they ask how the dutch educational system works!! This will save me 30 minutes of trying to explain it myself! And i always love to hear fellow Dutch people speak English, you can always hear that we are Dutch!

Czech education is kind of similar. Firstly, there's kindergarten (školka), which is for children 2-5 years. Then, there's elementary school (základní škola). It takes nine years, with option to go after the fifth grade to eight year grammar school (víceleté gymnázium). In nineth grade kids take part in the joining tests (přijímací zkoušky), which are neccesary to go on the secondary schools. More points you get, the more is the chance you'll be accepted to join the school. The high school system is also quite complicated, but not as much as the Dutch one. There are three types of high schools: Secondary vocational school, technical college and the grammar school. The secondary vocational school (střední odborné učeliště) is the lowest one, which doesn't require completing the joining tests. The duration of study is mostly 2-3 years. After completing the education on these schools, you get a vocational certificate, which you can use while attending a job in industry. People aren't expected to continue education after those schools. The technical college (střední průmyslová škola) is the middle one, which is more practical than grammar schools, but the education is quite similar in many things. Duration of study is 4 years. These schools have different vacations to study from. In the end of the 4th grade you have to pass the graduation test, which is same for all school doing it (including grammar schools). After you pass the graduation test, you get the graduation certificate, which is neccesary for attending to study on universities or higher vocational schools. The most difficult type of secondary education is the grammar school. It's only theoretical study. It also takes four years to complete the study. The same as for the technical college, in the end of the fourth grade you have to pass the graduation test, which is the same difficulty as on the technical colleges, but you have to choose from more subjects (you have to do czech, maths one foreign language, and one more subject of your decision). Aftre passing the exams, you also get the graduation certficate, with which you attend on universities. As for the tercial education, there are the higher vocatial schools and universities. The higher vocatial schools (vyšší odborná škola) are for those who completed the secondary vocatial education (the secondary vocatial schools and industrial colleges). Those schools are just some type of extension for the secondary education. The universities are more difficult than the higher vocatial schools. You also need to pass the joining tests on those + better your graduation certificate, the higher chance you'll be accepted for study. There are many vocaties for all kinds of students (from grammar schools and industrial colleges). The bachelor study takes 4 years, the magistry 5. After those you can continue studying for obtaining the PhDr., PhD., doc. and prof. Technical vocaties are bachelor and magistry (only exception is that you're not magister, but engineer). After passing the university graduation test, you get the degree according to your type of education. Then you can attend for better jobs. Maybe I should make video on this someday. (Excuse me for incorrections with translation that might occur)

was such a pain to get my "cycling diploma" xD

Bij de niveaus ben je GOM vergeten, het staat voor Geen Onderwijs Mogelijk

Wacht wat? Het verkeers examen krijgen wij hier begin groep 8

I love how I am Dutch but still saw the entire video and enjoyed it all the way through. You're honestly awesome I love the video! Never stop you're awesome! :3c

I’m from the Dutch Caribbean aka Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. We have a lot of similarities but not quite the same. Peuterschool is not obligatory. And when you enter Basisschool, you won’t get groups like 1-8. When you’re in kindergarten, it’s different. They don’t count as groups and only lasts about 2 years. When you enter basis, you start at 1ste klas till 6de. 6 years in total for basis. Then, depending on your report/rapport, you’ll get into Colegio (HAVO and VWO), MAVO, EPB and SPO. The latter two being craftsmanship type of thing. When you enter Colegio as I did, you’ll enter another 1ste klas which is called Ciclo Basico (Basic Cycle/Basis Cyclus). Then you go into CB2. When you’re year ends with CB2, depending on your grades. You’ll be sent off to HAVO 3 of VWO 3. One thing to mention, I’m from Aruba. Idk if Curaçao and Bonaire also uses it. But I believe it should be quite similar. HAVO lasts 3 years (5 years in total from CB) and VWO 6 years in total. MAVO lasts 4 years and then you can also go to HAVO to continue your education.

What would be the equivalent to IB in the Netherlands ?

Well that was very interesting to learn about. By the way what is the name of that Minoriko theme arrange?

that brabandian accent tho

So... I'm Dutch and got this explained in Dutch once, but didn't understand one bit and now I do so thanks to you I understand my own education plan thingy

Who else watched the video to better explain the school system to others because damn the middleschool part aleays stumped me. Also well done on explaining, I am grateful for it.