"All new teachers should sit a national exam to ensure quality"

Teachers’ qualifications are too disparate to guarantee all requirements for the job have been fulfilled, education advisory body Onderwijsraad has said. Some 60,000 people in the Netherlands are training to be teachers but with 384 training routes leading into the profession, the Onderwijsraad said uniformity is lacking and it is unclear if all educational bases have been covered. The body recommends prospective teachers sit a national exam, testing a set of requirements determined by the education ministry. “It should be...