administration and safety. This contrasts with the development of expenditure on education: these remained stable for thirty years as …, health care, education, interest and transfers to corporations. During the last two decades, Dutch public expenditure … education, were substantially reduced. Their impact on the decline of the share of total public expenditure even surpassed that …

picture, and the fact that financial resources devoted to education are relatively small, it is argued that increasing public … expenditure is not the obvious answer. As the social rate of return of education seems to be approximately equal to the private … low private share in the funding of education could be increased in the Netherlands. In addition, the high number of drop …

English Abstract: In 1998 computer science became a subject in higher secundary education in the Netherlands. It was …