Chris Hopley Nov 3, 2008:

Nuffic glossary See also Nuffic's glossary at http://www.nuffic.nl/glossary

hoger beroepsonderwijs (hbo)
higher professional education; professionally oriented higher education; higher education with an applied emphasis; HBO
One of two types of higher education in the Netherlands, the other being wetenschappelijk onderwijs (WO), or research-oriented higher education. HBO is oriented more towards professions in specific areas than WO, and has traditionally been offered at hogescholen. Internships, which give students practical experience in real work situations, are a central feature of HBO.

wetenschappelijk onderwijs (wo)
WO; research-oriented higher education with an emphasis on theory; academic higher education; (university education); the universities
One of two types of higher education in the Netherlands, the other being hoger beroepsonderwijs (HBO). University education is geared more towards theory and research than HBO, which is professionally oriented.

lpreston (asker) Nov 1, 2008:

Agree Ken, I agree. Plan on describing both terms once and then use WO and HMO+ as they come back in the document.
Thanks!

Linda

Ken Cox Nov 1, 2008:

comment The tranlaation of this is not straightforward, and a descriptive paraphrase might be better than any attempt to equate Dutch and US educational levels, depending on the context (which is rather sparsely provided here).

For useful commentary, see:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch_to_english/other/11513-hbo_e...

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch_to_english/education_pedagog...