The Youth Education Fund, the City of Amsterdam, the Rotterdam South programme, Education Lab and the ABN AMRO Foundation organized an inspiring webinar on 23 September with a positive message. Education Lab provided a research report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Equal opportunities are under pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Education is very decisive for the later success of students. Today’s society is a diploma society, the educational results and the diploma obtained largely determine what kind of work people get later and what they are going to earn. Internationally, too, we see a strong correlation between educational results and economic performance. In the Netherlands, we see that the educational results have become more uneven in the last 10 years; the diploma and income of the parents has become more decisive for the chances of students. The increased educational inequality is expected to put pressure on future income equality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The COVID-19 crisis has recently come on top of this, with school closures and distance learning for students. This is expected to lead to a further decline in equal opportunities in education, with especially vulnerable groups of students falling behind and their talents remaining underutilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n