De onderwijsdomeinen Techniek en Groen kennen samenwerkingsverbanden waarbinnen vmbo- en mbo-programma’s geïntegreerd worden in versnelde doorlopende leerroutes om studenten met een relatief hoog cognitief niveau en een praktijkgerichte oriëntatie een alternatief leertraject te bieden naar het hbo. De onderwijsprogramma’s Talentontwikkeling Techniek (TOT-route) en het Groene Lyceum (hGL) zijn te typeren als voorlopers van vele andere experimentele doorlopende leerroutes. In dit onderzoeksproject worden doorstroomgegevens en studiesucces van studenten in deze doorlopende leerroutes vergeleken met elkaar en met reguliere mbo4-trajecten en de havo-route en wordt gekeken naar onderliggende verklarende factoren. De resultaten vormen handvatten voor optimalisering van de doorstroom in de beroepskolom.

Associate degrees (Ad’s) serve a heterogenous target group of students. This impacts higher education institutions’ choices with respect to development and design of new and existing Ad-programs. In an attempt to optimally suit the programs to the heterogenous target groups, institutions make different considerations. This study makes these considerations and choices explicit, by a literature study and three case studies, involving Rotterdam Academy, NHL Stenden, and Avans Academie. The study focuses on the way program designs are guided by the heterogenous target population and on choices regarding collaboration with mbo-programs, hbo-bachelor programs, and the industry.

During the corona pandemic, physical education in MBO and HBO was limited. This may have had an impact on the process of orientation towards and integration into the new study programme. Presumably, these restrictions lead to an increased chance of a wrong study choice or less transfer from MBO to HBO. This transition is central to this research. The research focuses on support measures that institutions take to facilitate the intake and progression of students. Which measures are they, what results are they aimed at and what are the effective elements of the measures taken?

This research focuses on support measures to ease the inflow and progression of students to higher professional education, especially as a result of the corona period. What are these measures, what results are they aimed at and what are the effective elements of the measures taken? The role of the NPO funds is included in this. The research takes place in the practice of secondary vocational and higher professional education institutions. The approach consists of design-oriented research in which interventions are designed, implemented and evaluated together with practice partners. The existing questionnaire will also be supplemented.