Colleges and other former county educational institutions are allowed to buy their buildings to favorable price. At the same time used $ 1.7 billion to repair the maintenance backlog and resolve differences in the lease and students.

The former county educational institutions, colleges, hf centers, adult education centers, social and health schools and nursing and radiography schools have now offered to buy the properties that formerly belonged to the counties, for a total price of $ 5 billion. The government is now seeking the Finance Committee for the transfer of a document. The price of each building will be determined by each institution's ability to pay. At the same time Ministry of Education has been mapped maintenance standard in all the 213 properties (1.6 million m2 area) and WEA has been around handing smileys. There has been a maintenance backlog of 800 million, which will be deducted from the price. In addition, preparations are being made to provide 245 million kroner as transition grants to institutions in expensive leases and 500 million for the establishment of domicile in owned buildings. Finally apply for DKK 150 million in special grants to colleges, who can look forward to getting more students, so that these institutions can buy at a price equal to their expected future pay. Total deducted from the $ 1.7 billion of the purchase price for the identified maintenance backlog and subsidies for expensive rentals, establishment of owned buildings and student increases. The buildings were owned by the counties until 2007, when the Ministry of Education took them as part of local government reform. The transfer of the buildings of the former county institutions is the last part of the follow-up of local government reform. In 2007, the private and taximeter control, and the government's budget proposal for 2010 has earmarked 900 million crowns to provide institutional building taximeter, which must finance their home purchase and ownership. Bertel Haarder says: "It is a dream come true: Now, the entire education sector of private institutions with building meter instead of ministerial patronage. Now they can dispose and set the pace on investment. They can reap the benefits of having shared facilities with other institutions and save leases. They can even bet and debt. Simply put: Now is usually the Ministry and apply Ministry end in this area, and the incentives are right. I am pleased especially since it was I who invented the model building taximeter in my first ministerial period. Now it goes from strength to strength over the entire national territory. "The institutions are looking forward to take over the buildings. It gives them a good foundation for fluctuations in different years, as well as the opportunity to expand and organize their offerings based on local needs. At the same time involves building self-owned institutions have a bottom in the economy, which can act as security in connection with the ongoing financial management.

Facts

Pay model: The Minister of Education has previously sold state property to institutions for 50 percent of the public valuation. This time, the Ministry has developed a pay model especially for this occasion. What is new is that the institutions now have offered to buy the property for what they can afford to pay for it. The purchase price of each property is determined on the basis of Ministry of Education's calculation of each institution's expected construction revenue and expenses and by extension the annuity option, the institution has the opportunity to pay. The pricing takes into account that the institutions must be able to maintain an appropriate standard of building, while they are to recoup the mortgage, they must incorporate in order to buy the buildings. Institutions in leases: As part of the transition to building self-governing institutions will also take over the contracted lease. Institutions in particularly expensive leases will get an additional transitional grants to cover the portion of the rent, which can not be financed within the building taximeter revenue. The subsidy is paid to 2012, and then only until the non-cancellation period expires. The additional transitional grants expected to total 245 million over the period 2010-2025. Furthermore, EUR 500 million for the establishment grants to institutions in expensive rentals, as these institutions may have the opportunity to establish their headquarters in owned buildings at the end of the non-cancellable period. Source: Ministry of Education