{"id":183381,"date":"2025-11-10T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=183381"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:21:47","slug":"national-award-for-education-journalism-for-de-volkskrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/national-award-for-education-journalism-for-de-volkskrant\/","title":{"rendered":"National Prize for Education Journalism for de Volkskrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalists from de Volkskrant<\/em> won the National Prize for Education Journalism on Friday evening for a series of articles about the transition test. EM<\/em> was also nominated, with an article by Tessa Hofland on why it is so difficult to dismiss unsuitable medical students.<\/p>\n

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The Volkskrant-<\/em>journalists won the award for their series on the transition test<\/a>, the successor to the Cito test. The investigation by Jurre van den Berg, Irene de Zwaan, Ben Meindertsma, Erik Verwiel and Serena Frijters showed that pupils have better chances of moving on to senior general secondary education or pre-university education depending on which test they take. According to the jury, the series \u2018convincingly demonstrates that the transition test, intended to promote equal opportunities, has led to the opposite\u2019.<\/p>\n

Persistence<\/h2>

The jury praised the journalists\u2019 persistence. \u201cThe five journalists from de Volkskrant<\/em> did not accept the limited availability of information or the minister\u2019s inclination to keep negative messages from the education sector out of the public eye.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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