More immigrants pass school exams

The percentage of non-western immigrants in the Netherlands leaving school with a diploma has risen from 34% at the beginning of this century to 43% last year, says the national statistics office CBS. For the country has a whole, the number of school leavers with some sort of qualification has gone up from 59% to 61%, the CBS said.

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