The vocational house long cracked
« The Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, the last government, had planned that construction work began in the spring of 2024, but nothing has happened in the past year, » said Ingileif Oddsdóttir, headmaster of the North West Multicultural School (FNV), MA in her speech at the school’s wear yesterday.
She criticized the government for failing to fulfill the promises of housing contributions. She pointed out that the municipalities in the North West had agreed to finance their part of the project, but the needs analysis has been done for the expansion of the FNV vocational training house. There are drawings for 1,200 square meters of expansion of the premises. The drawings assume two additional annexes.
Unacceptable for years
Ingileif said the school’s housing has been unacceptable for years. The vocational house has long since become too small. She recalled that the Ministry of Education had an audit of the school’s activities in 2014 and then the vocational facility was already cracked. There were more than 100 students in industrial and vocational studies, but today there are 445 and students a total of more than 800. Ingileif said it was an eye-opener that the situation was much worse today than in 2014.
« Classrooms have been built up and facilities for students and staff have become unacceptable. Teaching in the electronics is partially carried out in the basement of the school’s academic school and in containers outside the school’s vocational house. 186. This is the largest graduation group of the school from the beginning. Since the first graduation in 1982, the school has graduated 3,383 students.
She said attendance figures for next fall indicate that the number of schools will still be increased. « Of course, there is pleasing news, but we have a certain problem, » Ingileif said among other things.
Three managers resign
Ingileif has worked for 30 years at the school, but two other executives retired this time; Kristján Bjarni Halldórsson, course manager and mathematical teacher, and Thorkell V. Þorsteinsson assistant teacher. Kristján is taking over as principal of Árskóli in Sauðárkrókur, after almost 30 years in the Multicultural School, but Thorkell quit due to age. No one has worked anymore at FNV, or for 45 years. Thorkell began working as a teacher in 1980, but the school had worked for one year.
Graduates students in FNV this spring, along with managers. This was the largest group in the history of the school, but 186 diplomas were delivered.
Photo/Óli Arnar Brynjarsson
Three FNV executives retired at the school’s wear yesterday, Kristján Bjarni Halldórsson, the director of the course, Ingileif Oddsdóttir headmaster and Þorkell V. Thorsteinsson assistant teacher. Thorkell had worked at the school for the longest time, or for 45 years since 1980. They are between them Reimar Marteinsson and Ingolf Jóhannsson from the Skagfirðinga Kaupfélag, who came to the school.
Photo/Óli Arnar Brynjarsson
