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20 April 202421 April 2024

Can we stop hammering triangular blocks into square holes?

It causes damage!

Two wooden child toy's. One board with wooden pegs and a hammer. The hammer can be used knock the pegs through the holes in the board. And a stove with round, rectangular, triangular and square holes with round, rectangular, triangular and square bloks, which tightly fit in the stove. — source of both pictures: playlaan.nl

As a long time interested (retired) researcher on transport of people with a handicap, I experience more and more the amount of real life circumstances that I cannot be aware of.

22 December 202322 December 2023

Is the crisis in pupils transport a quality or safety problem?

This contribution was published as an Opinion article in PV Magazine 6 on December 23, 2022,
see also PV magazine. The illustrations are from the film Crisis in het leerlingenvervoer

In the Covid period, contract transport has fallen sharply. Now there is a follow-up problem: a chronic shortage of drivers. Drivers have found other work or have stopped. There are companies that have managed to retain their drivers with arts and crafts, with lending and reducing working hours and other creative solutions.

Crisis

A study by Ouders en Onderwijs (O&O) and tweets by Elijah Delsink of the student interest (LBVSO) shows that the shortage of drivers now causes student transport to run dramatically in a number of places. There are fewer fixed trips and regular drivers. Companies sometimes bring students to school in two shifts, causing students to arrive late to school. Or they are not picked up at all. Because parents take care of this, they miss working hours and this has consequences for their job! Important teaching hours, tests, are missed. That damages students. Good education is at risk.

16 June 202012 July 2020

Finance and quality

One, because of the quotes, slightly longer blog:

In the field of target group transport and aids supply, a budget reduction spiral has been in place for years. If you think the bottom has been reached, it turns out it can still be lower. Meanwhile, far too late, the quay seems to be turning the ship around.