The Danish government wants to allocate 260 million kroner annually from this year, and from 2029 the amount will increase to 330 million kroner annually to strengthen vocational education. This is part of the initiative "Prepared for the Future VII", which is the government's third initiative in the area of vocational education.
Four out of ten students drop out of vocational education, but there is a very large difference in how many stop at the slightly more than 100 vocational education programs in Denmark. Some programs have a dropout rate of 20 percent, while the dropout rate is as high as 70 percent. in other programs. Because dropout rates vary across individual programs, the government will give the programs the freedom to assess where the money is best spent.
- This will give schools a significant boost to their finances and the freedom to assess locally how to create the best framework for educating the skilled workers of the future, says the proposal, which will also relax previously introduced requirements:
- To further support schools' freedom to find the best solutions themselves, the government wants to abolish the four goals from the vocational education reform (from 2014, ed.) as national goals for the programs, as well as a number of rules and process requirements.
A total of half of the financial resources in the proposal will be distributed to vocational schools without restrictions. However, the schools will not be given carte blanche. According to the government's proposal, they must enter into cooperation with the social partners to set a direction for the efforts of the individual schools. The proposal will also ensure that the level of teaching will be higher in the schools.
- Only one in three of the teachers covered has completed the mandatory diploma in vocational education (DEP), according to the preliminary proposal from the government.
The focus must be on the teachers' competencies.
- Therefore, the government will invest in strengthening the teachers' professional and pedagogical competencies.
The government will also ensure greater flexibility in vocational education, so that more young people with special needs and disabilities have better opportunities. Here, the government has been inspired by the fact that, according to the Danish High School Act, it is possible to organize a high school course over four years instead of three, for example for students on the autism spectrum (ASF).
- Therefore, the government will appoint three vocational schools to test ASF teams, it says.
- The possibility of ASF teams can, for example, be established in the office education, the agricultural education and the warehouse and terminal education.
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