The government will provide 9,000 extra traineeships

The government will provide 9,000 extra traineeships

New initiative from the government to a boost of 2.4 billion continue the positive development of the internship area. With this move, the government will provide nearly 9,000 extra traineeships among other things by raising internship bonus and increase quotas for school practice.
It goes forward on the placement area. In the first half of 2010, it managed to obtain about 3,400 out of the 5,000 additional seats, which was the objective of the internship effort for 2010. "It is gratifying that the internship figures show that it is now really managed to get started with raising the internships that are so necessary to ensure young people with good education opportunities now and future supply of qualified labor. With the government's proposal today, I hope there is political will and commitment to continue and strengthen the extraordinary efforts of several internships, "says Education Minister Tina Nedergaard. In order to continue the positive development of the internship, the Government today presented its overall proposal to a further enhanced internship effort. The goal is to provide 8,900 extra traineeships in 2011. These include three key elements in the proposal:
* To maintain and improve the existing præmierings- and bonus scheme, as employers going forward to 2011 can receive up to 70,000 crowns per new agreement and not 50,000 kroner so far in 2010.
* To increase the quota for admission to school practice for the distribution of the 10 vocational restricted to school practice with 1,500 seats in 2011, matching the level in 2010. There will still be free access to school practice on the other 32 VET school training.
* To extend the temporary expansion of access to school training in Step 2 in a year also saw pupils who in 2011 admitted in an educational stage 1 with school practice may continue in the program step 2 with school practice.
The total cost of the proposals in the government's proposal amounts to 2.4 billion kroner for 2013, of which about 150 million proposed to be financed with state funds, while the remaining amount is financed by the Employers' Reimbursement System (AER).

Facts about the internship effort

The government, together with the globalization of conciliation taken initiatives for extraordinary efforts in 2009 and 2010 to provide more places. The recent positive developments in the internship area indicates that the action is effective. The latest internship statistics show that total reached 22,526 training contracts during the first eight months. This corresponds to an increase of 18 percent compared to the number of training agreements in the first eight months of 2009. The overall proposal for action in 2011 to negotiate with the globalization of conciliation in the forthcoming budget negotiations. Source: Ministry of Education