Striking those who already have the least

Savings in the new educational reform – despite the agreement’s strengths – mean poorer continuing education opportunities for the group that already has the shortest higher education. And it is ominous for Danish business and Denmark’s ability to stand strong in an unpredictable world, warns HK chairman Anja C. Jensen.

– The reform looks nice on the surface, but it’s a completely different talk when zooming in on continuing education. For it goes hard beyond those who already have the shortest higher education. And it is ominous for Danish business and Denmark’s ability to stand strong in an unpredictable world.

This is what the reaction from HK’s Federal Chairman Anja C. Jensen sounds at the new reform of the professional and vocational education, in one press release.

For although the trade union is warmly supporting several of the reform’s initiatives, which will increase the quality of the programs, meet the needs of several different students and make it easier to get credit, especially one element with attention: Out of the total just under DKK 2 billion. The kroner The agreement will cost when fully phased in, is less than DKK 10 million. kroner set aside to strengthen the possibilities of continuing training throughout the working life. And for the group that has the shortest higher education – the over 218,000 laborers, computerians, trade economists and many other disciplines that, according to Statistics Denmark, have a business academy education – means the reform cuts and poorer opportunities to educate.

New education gets points for flexibility but may become a problem

The reform will shorten the professional programs and remove the top-up programs at the business academies in favor of new one-year superstructure programs, which according to the agreement text becomes « free access ».

Minister of Education and Research Christina Egelund stated when she launched the government’s play: « On the other hand, we say to the young people that they can then come to my shop and get filled on and on and on the rest of her life, without any limitation. »

Already in the same play it became clear that the « free access » should largely apply only the new superstructures. And so it looks in the final agreement. However, the funds are modest. Only 90 million has been set. DKK to the superstructures, and funds for other forms of continuing education are almost non-existent. When the new superstructures also have to replace the top-up programs, which today are longer, free and entitled to SU, it is in fact a cut, points out Anja C. Jensen.

In addition, the new superstructures-unlike the top-up programs-entail a number of stumbling threads. Apart from a very small experimental group, for example. do not read directly on them, but only must begin after at least two years in the labor market. And that, along with the abbreviations, can become a problem, the HK chairman emphasizes:

– The new education in the reform is a bit like cutting down on something you already have today, wrap it nicely and say: please, you must only open in two years. The consequence risks becoming less education and Denmark needs the opposite. But the very idea of ​​educating in close interaction with the labor market is just right, says Anja C. Jensen and continues:

– We are ready to provide input and sparring for the roll -out of the reform. For it is crucial that it will match the needs of the labor market as well as possible.

– The reform looks nice on the surface, but it’s a completely different talk when zooming in on continuing education. For it goes hard beyond those who already have the shortest higher education. And it is ominous for Danish business and Denmark’s ability to stand strong in an unpredictable world.

This is what the reaction from HK’s Federal Chairman Anja C. Jensen sounds on the new reform of the professional and vocational education.

For although the trade union is warmly supporting several of the reform’s initiatives, which will increase the quality of the programs, meet the needs of several different students and make it easier to get credit, especially one element with attention: Out of the total just under DKK 2 billion. The kroner The agreement will cost when fully phased in, is less than DKK 10 million. kroner set aside to strengthen the possibilities of continuing training throughout the working life. And for the group that has the shortest higher education – the over 218,000 laborers, computerians, trade economists and many other disciplines that, according to Statistics Denmark, have a business academy education – means the reform cuts and poorer opportunities to educate.