Only 27 will train to become schoolteachers in Skive, but the mayor will fight for the education.

The teacher training programme in Skive has admitted 25 per cent fewer students than last year.

Mayor Alfred Brunsgaard (V) calls the development disappointing. (Photo: © Michael Lyck Poulsen, DR)

By Andreas Holm Hansen ([email protected]) 20 minutes ago

It is proving difficult to attract student teachers to Skive.

Only 27 students were admitted this year to the teacher training programme in Skive, which has capacity for 170 new students.

Last year, the programme admitted 36 new students, so this represents a 25 per cent decrease.

> We are short of students, so this is a disappointing development.

> Alfred Brunsgaard (V), Mayor of Skive Municipality

Nevertheless, the mayor of Skive Municipality, Alfred Brunsgaard (V), believes it is important to preserve the programme.

- If we are to continue to have a high percentage of qualified teachers in our primary schools, it is important that we have a programme for them, he says, emphasising that he is unhappy with the development.

- Of course I had hoped the number would have been higher. We are short of students, so this is a disappointing development, he adds.

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Frederik Nørgaard Sivebæk, chairman of the student teachers’ national association in Skive, is also disappointed that so few students are looking towards Skive.

- Together with the top management, we need to discuss what is needed to turn the development around, he says.

Frederik Nørgaard Sivebæk would very much like to see more students in Skive. (Photo: © Private photo)

This is not the first time the teacher training college in Skive has had low admissions.

In 2024, this led VIA’s board to recommend closing the programme and consolidating the West Jutland teacher training programmes in Holstebro, but after a political lifeline of six million kroner annually for three years, the programme was able to continue.

But if it is to work, students must start choosing Skive, says Frederik Nørgaard Sivebæk.

- You are important in this area. It may be easier to get a job here than when 100 new teachers are churned out in Aarhus every summer. Those are the kinds of things that are important to say, says Frederik Nørgaard Sivebæk.

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