Willemijn van Oppen is the founder and principal of Educaide, your solution house for international education in the Netherlands, advising the full spectrum of international education stakeholders. Her experience ranges from advising ministries and local governments to counseling families with the challenges of expatriation. Educaide offers strategic and practical advice always bearing the best interest of students in mind.
In addition, Educaide renders intermediary service between fully qualified, native English speaking teachers and Dutch international (and bilingual) schools.
In September 2019, the International School Delft will open a secondary school. The secondary school will be governed by the Board of Stichting Lucas Onderwijs, a strong education group with primary and secondary schools in the Hague/Delft region (www.lucasonderwijs.nl/). From…
Under Dutch law, education is mandatory for all children of all nationalities residing in the Netherlands, from ages 5 to 18, and should be completed with a diploma. The author goes into the various forms of education in the Netherlands,…
Three years ago, the American International School of Rotterdam (AISR) started offering an expanded mother-tongue language program in grades PreK1 - 5 (ages 3-11). Since 2013-2014, the AISR has expanded the mother-tongue program to include French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin,…
The International School Twente (IST) is the only international school in the Twente region, located in Enschede. It is a so-called Dutch International School (DIS) which means that the school is fully recognized by the Dutch Ministry of Education and…
As mentioned in the article, When Parents Stay and Children Depart, there is a wealth of international schooling options in the Netherlands, both at primary and secondary level, as well as at university level. For the latter, we refer you…
