At several schools this actually was the case: students were not accepted because they were too old. But last week, the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission put a stop to it and said this was not allowed to happen again.
Too old to study?
10-05-2011 @ 16:25:07 by Marijn Hondorp
Not being allowed because you are too old, does it even exist?
Advice: Don't study
Several reports of discrimination because of age were received by Young People’s commissions for vocational education. Students are often send away when they subscribe for a study. The colleges cannot just send them away, but what they can do is advise students not to choose a study and not to subscribe. But in some cases the advice seemed more like a demand.
ROC Nijmegen refuses student
Recently, a Dutch 27-year-old student was refused to do a study at the ROC Nijmegen. ‘There are only sixteen and eighteen-year-old students studying this course. We don’t accept students above the age of twenty, because experience taught us this doesn’t work right,’ an e-mail from the ROC to this student said. The Dutch Equal Treatment Commission disagreed in this case.
It remains a vague story, because it is up to the students themselves whether they will take the advice. Be honest, you are never too old to learn, right?
