Tag: Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil

  • The state will apologize for violence, sexual assault and forced castration in nursing homes

    Earlier today, Minister of Social Affairs and Housing Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil announced that an apology will be given by the state for assaults committed in care homes, reports DR. The offenses took place between 1933 and 1980 in the sector once known as ‘care for the special and mentally retarded’. The proposed apology follows a government…

  • 15 Danish cities must have a youth education closer

    A total of 15 cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants outside Greater Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg do not have a youth education. It shows a note from the Ministry of Children and Education. But the government will look into the possibility that they may get. This is what Minister for Children and Education Pernille…

  • Government: Dyslexic adults must be found and helped

    That is why many people only find out as adults that they are dyslexic. And maybe they haven’t even gotten it fixed yet. – It is absolutely terrible that we have had children and young people through a school system that has now become adults, and at no time was anyone who found out that…

  • Municipality puts school accused of exam cheating under scrutiny

    This is stated by the municipality in a press release. Søndervangskolen in Aarhus, which has many bilingual students, is accused of giving students extra time for the final exam in Danish, even though the students were not entitled to it. But the municipal committee also refers to the fact that there has been criticism of…

  • Pupils and school staff now only need to be tested once a week

    All students over the age of 12 and employees in rural schools who have not yet been vaccinated against covid-19 can now avoid being tested as much as before. From Friday, they are only encouraged to be coronated once a week. This also applies to visitors to the schools. So far, they have been encouraged…

  • Employers will have installments of the state for billions

    Significantly greater support was given to the Danish companies’ apprentices in 2020 than expected. This has meant that the large fund in which companies invest money to get a refund for, for example, apprenticeship salaries, now lacks DKK 2.5 billion. It is part of the agreement on the scheme Arbejdsgivernes Uddannelsesbidrag, AUB, that the companies…

  • Corona rules for children relaxed: Test rather than repatriation

    In future, only the infected self will have to go into self-isolation. Children who are close contacts are instead recommended to be tested so that they can stay in school or in day care, the agency writes. Minister of Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) informs TV 2 that it will be conditional on the parents having…

  • Minister will give large children grade for work effort

    Minister will give large children grade for work effort

    The oldest pupils in primary school must have an annual grade for diligence. This is the opinion of Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S). It writes Jyllands-Posten. She wants to get the other parliamentary parties involved in an experiment that will be rolled out among thousands of students in 8th and 9th grade.…

  • Colleges on new agreement: Fewer first priorities are worth the price

    Colleges on new agreement: Fewer first priorities are worth the price

    A new agreement on the distribution of students in upper secondary education has been criticized for restricting students’ free choice. But at the interest organization Danske Gymnasier, the joy for the agreement is great, and chairman Birgitte Vedersø emphasizes that there is no free choice today either. – Today, students are also sent to other…

  • Support parties have given priority to saving small high schools in new agreement

    The challenge is that a look at the coming cohorts shows that some provincial high schools can look forward to fewer students. The consequence, according to both Minister of Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) and the support parties, could be the closure of high schools. Therefore, the government and a majority in the Folketing have adopted…

  • Majority agrees tighter management with places in high schools

    In the rest of the country, there is not as much change in the way students are distributed. On the other hand, a tighter control of how many places there are in the various programs must ensure a greater distribution: – The model is based on a control of how many students the individual educational…

  • Falling student numbers threaten colleges in smaller cities by 2030

    Falling student numbers threaten colleges in smaller cities by 2030

    According to the memo, only two of the 26 high schools have experienced an increase in the number of students starting a high school education since 2012. Falling student numbers could put pressure on high school finances. If a high school has to close, it can have negative consequences for a local community. This is…

  • Statement shows continuing challenges in primary school

    – I think the way forward is for us politicians to sit down with the parties in primary school – and see which buttons we have to turn on – and do so with respect for all the good that happens in school, she says. The status statement has been made every year since the…

  • New guidelines pave the way for caramel toss and student driving

    New guidelines pave the way for caramel toss and student driving

    This is the message from Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S), who on Thursday published new guidelines. – It must be possible to throw caramels on the last day of school, have the family with you when handing in a journeyman’s certificate or diploma and to drive in a student carriage. – I…

  • Full reopening for schools, but how many are able to comply with the short notice?

    Full reopening for schools, but how many are able to comply with the short notice?

    From today, children who go in 5.-8. Class at the public school, back to 100 percent physical participation, while university students in Copenhagen get 30 percent – in line with the rest of higher education institutions in the country. Due to a two-day notice of the reopening from the government, it has been a race…

  • Lack of space could slow full reopening of schools from Thursday

    But it is hardly all schools that have time to get ready, says the message from Gordon Ørskov Madsen, chairman of the Danish Teachers’ Association. – It should not be a race to finish by 8 o’clock Thursday morning. – If you only finish on Friday or Monday, we will probably do it too, he…

  • Many students do not attend school despite political agreement

    The school leaders’ association estimates that more than half of the country’s schools will still resort to distance learning. – It has been oversold, and yes, there are some students and parents who are disappointed, but it is the art of the possible. – The reopening agreement says that the schools can change the distance…

  • High schools may open to more students during the 3rd year’s writing period

    High schools may open to more students during the 3rd year’s writing period

    Many 3rd grade students will soon have to primarily work from home when they embark on their major written assignment, SRP or SOP. This leaves a large amount of empty desks at the educational institutions, and the Ministry of Children and Education is now ready to fill them with other students. It writes the ministry…

  • Newly created youth education suffers from high absenteeism

    Newly created youth education suffers from high absenteeism

    – I’m not so surprised by the number. But I’m worried about that. It has been the most bumpy startup for FGU one can almost imagine. It only managed to run for half a year before the corona hit. – It is always a difficult exercise to start a new education. And it has been…

  • The government is opening schools more with encouragement and demands for testing

    The government is opening schools more with encouragement and demands for testing

    The government has entered into the agreement with the support parties SF, the Radicals and the Unity List, while the entire blue bloc and the Alternative are not included in the agreement. – It is incredibly important for the government that we get children and young people back when it is possible. – But of…

  • Minister: Corona test becomes entrance ticket to teaching

    When high school students and other students in educational institutions return to school, a negative corona test response will likely be the entry ticket to receive tuition. This is what Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) says to Ekstra Bladet, after she has held meetings with student, teacher and leader organizations. And according…

  • Minister for Children on Criticism: Well-being and professional boost are linked

    The Minister rejects the criticism. – It is important to say that when you make two-teacher schemes, it is something that increases well-being most among children and young people. Well-being and professionalism are completely inextricably linked. It is misleading to try to make it up in dollars and cents, she says. On Thursday, a broad…

  • Media: Mayors go to a meeting on school opening on Monday

    On Monday at 11 am, the mayors of the country’s 98 municipalities are summoned to a meeting on school opening and test strategy. It appears from an email to the mayors, which DR is in possession of. The meeting will be attended by Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke (S) and Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup…

  • 600 million for well-being and academic backlog for students

    600 million for well-being and academic backlog for students

    – I sincerely hope that the initiatives we now present will make a difference for our children and young people and create some air and light in a difficult time, says Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) in a press release. Two-thirds of the money in the agreement is targeted at academic boost…

  • We hope for an early agreement on well-being for repatriated students

    – I hope that we can land an agreement in the coming days, so we can send out some money that teachers and educators can work with locally. More could have been done, but it requires the will of the government, says education spokeswoman Ellen Trane Nørby (V). The parties have been negotiating for some…

  • Well-known politician stops

    Well-known politician stops

    At 11.45, the Unity List has invited to a press conference on a “reconstitution in the Unity List’s parliamentary group”. The Unity List has neither chairman nor political leader like other parties. So the post of political rapporteur is the most influential in the party. It is, for example, the party’s political spokesperson who represents…

  • Researchers see declines in students’ academic levels during pandemics

    Researchers see declines in students’ academic levels during pandemics

    – We face a great challenge in relation to these students, says professor at SDU Ane Qvortrup to Berlingske. – I was not so skeptical after the first closure, because I was sure that the students could handle a short period of distance learning. But now it has been going on for so long that…

  • Danish students’ mathematics level has plummeted since the reform

    Christian Christrup Kjeldsen is head of the National Center for School Research and one of the people behind the report. He believes that the conclusions should give deep frowns. – It is a very marked and very worrying decline in the mathematics subject, he says. The decline comes after a nearly 20-year period of general…

  • Several S-ministers go free of coronavirus after testing

    – My coronate test is negative – so tomorrow (Thursday, ed.) Everyday life will be more normal again, it sounded on Wednesday night from Trine Bramsen on Facebook. Also Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil could tell that she has not been tested positive. – I just got a negative coronate test. No disease. Nice when negative is positive,…

  • Vocational schools fear that young people will opt out of vocational education

    Vocational schools fear that young people will opt out of vocational education

    According to Ole Heinager, who is chairman of Danske Erhvervsskoler og -Gymnasier – Lederne, it is sensible from a health professional point of view to cancel this year’s so-called bridge building. – There has been a lot of concern from students, parents and staff that students should be mixed across the board, he says. But…

  • Minister will help corona affected students

    Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) will lay down corona absence rules for youth education. She writes this on Twitter. – Sends letter to the principals of eud (vocational education, ed.) And high school education, so there is no doubt about how absenteeism should be handled in the light of the corona, she…