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The criticism of the government’s so-called education cap<\/secret><\/em> has been massive – opposition parties have \u00a0voiced their opinions on the matter and so have the more than 80,000 Danes that protested by signing a petition against the proposed law.<\/p>\n

The education cap\u00a0was officially approved by the parliament as law, at the end 2016, but changes were already being made to it in January 2017. As of today, it is possible to study for a new university degree in another field at the same or higher level, six years after a student has completed their final exam.<\/p>\n

The education cap was introduced to finance a political\u00a0deal about unemployment benefits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, there has been a lot of debate about how many students would be affected by the new education agreement. During the summer of 2016, a\u00a0memorandum from the\u00a0Ministry of Higher Education and Science stated that\u00a02,523 students\u00a0began studying at university level in 2014, in a new field, despite already having a bachelors or master\u2019s degree in another field.<\/p>\n

900\u00a0affected<\/h3>\n

Such a large number of students will not be affected after adjustments were made to the law earlier this year, according to S\u00f8ren Pind. In an answer to a question posed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, he writes that statistically 1,800 people have started a new university level education program, six years after finishing their previous degree.<\/p>\n

Of those, it is estimated that about half – approximately 900 students – will be affected by the education cap, when you also take other factors in to consideration, \u00a0including dispensation options, etc.<\/p>\n

Financing the agreement about\u00a0unemployment benefits<\/h3>\n

The education cap was introduced to finance a political\u00a0deal about unemployment benefits from 2015. The cap\u00a0was criticized, among other things, for being introduced on short notice, only six months before it went into effect, which meant that a number of students would\u00a0be prevented from studying for a degree in another field after they had\u00a0finished their bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

For that same reason, the Socialist People’s Party’s Jakob Mark has asked the\u00a0Minister for Higher Education and Science about the cost of postponing the education cap until the summer of 2018.<\/p>\n

If the law limiting people’s option of having university level degrees from two different fields is postponed, until the summer of 2018, it will mean that the government will miss DKK 160 million that are needed to finance the agreement about unemployment benefits for 2017 to 2020, according to the Minister for Higher Education and Science,\u00a0S\u00f8ren Pind.
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During the summer of 2016, a\u00a0memorandum from the\u00a0Ministry of Higher Education and Science stated that\u00a02,523 students\u00a0began studying at university level in 2014, in a new field, despite already having a bachelors or master\u2019s degree in another field.<\/p>\n<h3>900\u00a0affected<\/h3>\n<p>Such a large number of students will not be affected after adjustments were made to the law earlier this year, according to S\u00f8ren Pind. In an answer to a question posed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, he writes that statistically 1,800 people have started a new university level education program, six years after finishing their previous degree.<\/p>\n<p>Of those, it is estimated that about half – approximately 900 students – will be affected by the education cap, when you also take other factors in to consideration, \u00a0including dispensation options, etc.<\/p>\n<h3>Financing the agreement about\u00a0unemployment benefits<\/h3>\n<p>The education cap was introduced to finance a political\u00a0deal about unemployment benefits from 2015. The cap\u00a0was criticized, among other things, for being introduced on short notice, only six months before it went into effect, which meant that a number of students would\u00a0be prevented from studying for a degree in another field after they had\u00a0finished their bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p>For that same reason, the Socialist People’s Party’s Jakob Mark has asked the\u00a0Minister for Higher Education and Science about the cost of postponing the education cap until the summer of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If the law limiting people’s option of having university level degrees from two different fields is postponed, until the summer of 2018, it will mean that the government will miss DKK 160 million that are needed to finance the agreement about unemployment benefits for 2017 to 2020, according to the Minister for Higher Education and Science,\u00a0S\u00f8ren Pind.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Banner","img":false,"url":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":[41],"theme":183,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1036,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":183,"name":"Uddannelsesloft","slug":"uddannelsesloft","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":183,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":276,"name":"Uddannelsesloft","slug":"uddannelsesloft-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":276,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":185,"name":"Uddannelsesministeriet","slug":"uddannelsesministeriet","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":185,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":16,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":215,"name":"Uddannelsesministeriet","slug":"uddannelsesministeriet-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":215,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11491,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/uddannelsesloft.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46257,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46209\/revisions\/46257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}