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Greenland
Partners situated in Country
None.
Country in a nutshell
Country education policy
AoILVET is the Agency of Industry, Labour Market and Vocational Education and Training.
- Parliament adopted the Greenland Education Programme (GEP) in 2005 in recognition of the low educational level in Greenland, which is viewed as an impediment to economic development and improvement of living conditions.
- GEP’s overall purpose is to ensure that two-thirds of the work force has an education providing them with academic qualifications or vocational skills in 2020.
- In its first phase (2006-2012) the GEP focuses on lower secondary school leavers who drop out of the educational system after graduation and on unskilled workers under 50 who are unemployed, in threatened trades and/or breadwinners for a family. In the second phase (2013-2020) the focus will be on higher education.
- Expenditure on GEP was 9.0 million Euros in 2006, 26.4 million Euros in 2007 and is expected to reach 38.1 million Euros in 2008.
- Implementation of the GEP is supervised by the Executive Steering Committee, which has members from several ministries and from the Association of the Municipalities in Greenland. The secretariat of the GEP is presently located within the Agency of Industry, Labour Market, and Vocational Education and Training (AoILVET). The AoILVET is also responsible for the bi-annual debriefings to Parliament on the progress of the GEP.
Source:http://uk.nanoq.gl/sitecore/content/websites/uk,-d-,nanoq/emner/international_relations/gep.aspx
Country education system
Education is free and compulsory for all children between the ages of 7 and 16. About 100 school centers have been established, and their languages of instruction are both Greenlandic (an Inuit language with some Danish words) and Danish. A university center is at Nuuk.
Higher education
Universities in Country
The sole university, University of Greenland (Ilisimatusarfik), has (as of 2007) approximately 150 students, almost all local inhabitants, and around 14 academic staff and five technical-administrative employees. The modest student population is due in part to the government's policy allowing students a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America.
Its web site is http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl