Kralendijk – Last Wednesday representatives of vocational education institutes and education related institutions on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba committed themselves with their signatures to a list of agreements. The signing of the agreements marked the finalization of a three day conference on vocational education. The goal of this conference was to reach agreement on a list of measures, that must be taken to enable all Caribbean Netherlands vocational education institutes to comply with the legal frameworks and reach the basic quality level according to European Netherlands standards before the year 2016. On the picture f.l.t.r. director Hemmie van Xanten of Saba Comprehensive School, director Elyane Paul of ROA (Raad voor onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt), director Leen de Jong of the Gwendoline van Putten School (Sint Eustatius), unitdirector mbo of Scholengemeenschap Bonaire Dinie Wijnmaalen, director Inge Berben of Fundashon Forma (Bonaire) and sr. project leader secondary and vocational education RCN/OCW Nolly Oleana.