Utrecht bridges gap with cross-college freshers' week

Students at vocational colleges in Utrecht have joined university and HBO college students in traditional freshers’ activities for first time to ‘bridge the gap’, the organisers have said. During the UITweek, first-years are introduced to the city and each other through activities and events but until now MBO students had not been invited to the party. Vocational education has been struggling with an image problem for many years. Yet some 40% of the working population have an MBO diploma and...