Rut Van Caudenberg

University of Antwerp | UA · Department of Sociology

In Flanders, students with a migration background are highly overrepresented in the lower-status vocational and technical tracks, experience more grade retention and school and track mobility and have a higher risk of leaving school early than their native peers. The authors aim to shed light on the complexity of school belonging and its significan...

In various European cities urban authorities and local stakeholders are exploring ways to tackle challenges arising from recent refugee flows. A central concern is the social integration of refugees: how to connect this particular category of newcomers – and especially the most vulnerable ones – durably with local communities? In this article, we d...

Increasing numbers of youngsters are at risk of early school leaving. In this study, we examine educational decision-making of inner-city youth during their educational trajectories and how this could contribute to the decision to leave school without an educational qualification. Based on interviews with 34 youngsters in a Flemish city (Antwerp, B...

Unaccompanied young adult Refugees in ANTwerp (CURANT). CURANT is an 'innovative urban project'funded by the European Union's European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The project is led by the City of Antwerp and implemented in collaboration with a consortium of five other institutions. The central target group of CURANT are unaccompanied min...

In many educational systems, age is used as a criterion to organise education. Children's age is used to group students together and indicate entry into particular programmes. The use of age for organisational purposes in education stems from the idea that age provides an indication of the development of children, which is associated with teaching...

Early School Leaving in the European Union provides an analysis of early school leaving (ESL) in nine European Union countries, with a particular focus on young people who were previously enrolled in educational institutions inside and outside mainstream secondary education. The comparative approach employed by this volume adds to the existing body...

This study focuses on how students, who for a variety of reasons struggle in mainstream secondary schools, can be supported and engaged by alternative forms of education and training to attain a (formal) qualification. Interviews and focus groups are carried out with school staff members of distinct types of alternative learning arenas in Flanders...

In this third RESL.eu Publication, we present the findings of the cross-case analyses of both school-based prevention and intervention measures, as well as measures instituted in institutions providing compensatory/alternative pathways for individuals that have left regular secondary education without an upper secondary education qualification in E...

This report is written in the framework of the second phase of the research project “Assessing Integration Measures for Vulnerable Migrant Groups” (ASSESS) and reports on the findings for Belgium. The report looks at the existing policies, measures and programmes in a specified set of policy domains considered important for the integration, in orde...