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Dutch teachers are very productive: OECDTuesday 08 September 2009 Dutch primary secondary school teachers have more teaching hours and more pupils under their wings than any other country in the OECD apart from the US, according to a new report quoted by the Telegraaf. The paper says the OECD report shows Dutch teachers' are up to 1.5 times as 'productive' as teachers in the other industrialised countries The AOb teaching union told the Telegraaf the survey showed that thousands more teachers were needed in the Netherlands. 'Having extra teaching staff would allow teachers to prepare their lessons better and give pupils the more individual attention they need,' a spokesman told the paper. The union called on education minister Ronald Plasterk to take urgent action to make teaching a more attractive career. 'We have to have good people in front of the class,' the spokesman told the paper. The report also showed the Netherlands spends slightly more than the OECD average on education per pupil but that spending on university and hbo students has gone down slightly. The Netherlands spends some 5.5% of GDP on education, below the OECD average of just over 6%. © DutchNews.nl
What one person called 'more productive' another person calls 'overworked'! Personally I would like to see class sizes reduced and more adult help (paid or unpaid) in the classroom. Last year my 8 year old son had 33 pupils in his class with a newly qualified teacher and no other adult input. Can this be championed as productive? By simplastic | September 8, 2009 3:56 PM A knowledge based economy can't be had on the cheap. It takes investment, esp in human resources ie teachers. Consecutive Dutch governments have consistently spent less than other Western European countries on education and it shows. By T vanden Berg | September 8, 2009 4:50 PM
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I would like to see the source of this article. When I look at the OECD report, the data for the netherlands if often 'm' or missing. Seems difficult to extract information on 'productivity' when the data is missing.
Editors note: the source for this article is the Telegraaf, as stated. I have linked to the original report so readers can look for themselves.
By bobsocks | September 8, 2009 2:42 PM