'Drop-out of first years must decrease'
According to chairman of the Board of Regents, Ron Bormans, universities and colleges must provide better information about the contents and the intensity of studies. Besides, first-year students have to get better support. These measures to avoid first-year students to drop out during the first year of their study.
Too much drop-outs
More than half of the first-year students quits their study during the first year. ‘The HAN has a rate of 44 percent, which is a little bit better, but it is yet too much’. A rate of 33 percent would be more ac-ceptable’, Bormans says in a few regional newspapers.
Better study advice
One of the reasons students drop out early according to Bormans, is that future students don’t get enough information and are not well-advised. Therefore, they get a wrong idea of the contents of the study and of studying in general. ‘The information students receive, should be less focused on the canvassing. We should make clear what the student can expect.’ Bormans thinks it is already done well at Car Engineering. ‘Car Engineering tells future students for example that they have to have a good general knowledge of mathematics, otherwise they won’t make it.’
