How you can improve your math, language, and computer skills.

About 1.3 million people in the Netherlands cannot read and write properly and have difficulty with digital skills. Of these, 700,000 are employed.

So you are not the only one. But how exactly do you improve these skills?

Practice

Practice, practice and practice again. You can easily do this by reading more books, doing math exercises digital courses. Or simply online. Through oefenen.nl, for example.

Through oefenen.nl you can improve your skills. Oefenen.nl offers all kinds of free training courses for language, computers and arithmetic. But also training on how to better handle money, how to live healthier and how to familiarize yourself with this sometimes complicated society.

Want to take it a step further? Take training and education courses with Doorzaam's reimbursements

Lone offers various allowances as support for temporary workers to take courses, training and education. Funded by labor unions and temporary staffing organizations.

For example, the Dutch Language Budget. A budget of €1500 euro for taking a Dutch language course.

Or the Development Budget. An allowance of €2500 which you can spend on an education, course or training to improve your skills.

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