Sondervick College
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The Sondervick College is a Dutch catholic secondary school located in the village Veldhoven (province North Brabant). It provides all three levels of Dutch secondary education: VMBO, HAVO, VWO (and TTO meaning bilingual education at HAVO and VWO-level).
The Dutch system for secondary schools has been divided into three different levels of education:
- VMBO
- Full name in Dutch: Voorbereidend Middelbaar Beroeps-Onderwijs
- Literal meaning: Preparatory Secondary Vocational Education
- Existing out of various directions; E.g. Construction & Technique, Welfare & Care, etc.
- Practical approach
- 4 years
- HAVO
- Full name in Dutch: Hoger Algemeen Voortgezet Onderwijs
- Literal meaning: Higher General Secondary Education
- Theoretical approach
- 5 years
- VWO
- Full name in Dutch: Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
- Literal meaning: Preparatory Scientific Education (pre-university education)
- Consisting of two directions: Gymnasium (includes the extra subjects Greek, Latin and Classical Culture) and Athenaeum (Consists of only the standard VWO-subjects, however does not include Greek, Latin or Classical Culture).
- Theoretical approach
- 6 years
In the Netherlands children enter secondary school around the age of twelve and - depending on the level of education - graduate around the age of either sixteen, seventeen or eighteen.
Sondervick College provides education on all three of these levels. In 2008 the school first started teaching TTO, meaning not just the regular Gymnasium and Athenaeum (where all subjects are taught in Dutch) can be followed, but also the bilingual variants (where in the first three years 70-75% of the subjects are taught in English instead of Dutch) can be followed.