Education in the Faroe Islands
The levels of education in the Faroe Islands are primary, secondary and higher education. Most institutions are funded by the state; there are few private schools in the country. Education is compulsory for 9 years between the ages of 7 and 16.
In the twelfth century education in the Faroe Islands was provided by the Catholic Church. The Church of Denmark took over education after the Protestant Reformation. Modern educational institutions started operating in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and developed throughout the twentieth century. The status of the Faroese language in education was a significant issue for decades, until it was accepted as a language of instruction in 1938. Initially education was administered and regulated by Denmark. In 1979 responsibilities on educational issues started transferring to the Faroese authorities, a procedure which was completed in 2002.
Compulsory education consists of seven years of primary education, and two years of lower secondary education; it is public, free of charge, provided by the respective municipalities, and is called the Fólkaskúli in Faroese. The Fólkaskúli also provides optional preschool education as well as the tenth year of education that is a prerequisite to get admitted to upper secondary education. Students that complete compulsory education are allowed to continue education in a vocational school, where they can have job-specific training and education. Since fishing industry is an important part of country's economy, maritime schools are an important part of Faroese education. Upon completion of the tenth year of Fólkaskúli, students can continue to upper secondary education which consists of several different types of schools. Higher education is offered at the University of the Faroe Islands; a part of Faroese youth moves abroad to pursue higher education, mainly in Denmark. Other forms of education comprise adult education and music schools. The structure of the Faroese educational system bears resemblances with its Danish counterpart.
The main language of instruction up to the lower secondary school is Faroese, while Danish is the main language of instruction in upper secondary schools. Education in the Faroe Islands is administered and regulated by the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture (Faroese: Mentamálaráðið), with Rigmor Dam being the minister since 15 September 2015.
Background
The Ministry of Education, Research and Culture has the locale of instructive obligation in the Faroe Islands. Since the Faroe Islands is a constituent nation of the Danish Realm, training in the Faroe Islands is affected and has likenesses with the Danish instructive framework; there is a concession to instructive participation between the Faroe Islands and Denmark. In 2012 the general population spending on instruction was 8.1% of GDP. The regions are in charge of the school structures for youngsters' instruction in Fólkaskúlin from age first grade to ninth or tenth grade (age 7 to 16). In November 2013 1,615 individuals, or 6.8% of the aggregate number of workers, were utilized in the instruction sector. Of the 31,270 individuals matured 25 or more 1,717 (5.5%) have picked up no less than a Master's degree or a Ph.D., 8,428 (27%) have picked up a B.Sc. then again a Diploma, 11,706 (37.4%) have completed upper auxiliary instruction while 9,419 (30.1%) has just completed grade school and have no other education. There is no information on proficiency in the Faroe Islands, yet the CIA Factbook states that it is likely as high as in Denmark appropriate, i.e. 99%.
The greater part of understudies in upper optional schools are ladies, in spite of the fact that men speak to the larger part in advanced education establishments. What's more, most youthful Faroese individuals who migrate to different nations to study are women. Out of 8,535 holders of four year certifications, 4,796 (56.2%) have had their instruction in the Faroe Islands, 2,724 (31.9%) in Denmark, 543 in both the Faroe Islands and Denmark, 94 (1.1%) in Norway 80 in the United Kingdom and the rest in other countries. Out of 1,719 holders of graduate degrees or PhDs, 1,249 (72.7% have had their training in Denmark, 87 (5.1%) in the United Kingdom, 86 (5%) in both the Faroe Islands and Denmark, 64 (3.7%) in the Faroe Islands, 60 (3.5%) in Norway and the rest in different nations (generally EU and Nordic). Since there is no restorative school in the Faroe Islands, every single therapeutic understudy need to concentrate abroad; starting 2013, out of an aggregate of 96 medicinal understudies, 76 examined in Denmark, 19 in Poland and 1 in Hungary.
Language
In spite of the fact that the Faroese dialect is assigned as the nation's key dialect, the Home Rule Act of the Faroe Islands expresses that the Danish dialect "is to be learnt well and carefully". Up to ninth grade, most school material is in Faroese; there are Danish classes since third grade. In upper auxiliary training this example is turned around; courses are taught in Danish, aside from the Faroese dialect courses. The Faroese dialect is taught 64 hours for every week, general, all through necessary instruction, while Danish is taught 29 hours for each week; exams in both dialects are equivalent in length. English dialect courses begin from fourth grade and they are taught for 60 hours yearly at that review, 90 hours in fifth grade, 120 hours in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade; students who took the tenth grade have the choice to get an additional 120 hours of English lessons.
History
In the Middle Ages instruction was offered by the Catholic Church in Kirkjubøur.
In the Middle Ages there was instruction in Kirkjubøur offered by the Catholic Church. As per the
In 1870 the Faroese Teachers School (Faroese: Føroya Læraraskúli) was set up to offer preparing and capability for teachers. The main oceanic schools were established as private foundations in Tórshavn in 1893. The principal Evening School was established in 1904, with joint financing by the Løgting and Denmark. In 1912 a Danish Royal pronouncement set up mandatory essential instruction, with the procurement that educating was in Danish. That choice prompted strains in training as Faroese instructors Louis Zachariasen and Jákup Dahl kept instructing in Faroese and were oppressed for doing as such; the issue was determined in 1938 when Faroese was perceived as equivalent to Danish in Faroese schools. In 1927 the Danish government, upon the solicitation of the Faroese parliament, set up an open navigational school in Tórshavn, trailed by a marine architects school in 1929.
The Faroese Nursing School, set up in 1960, was converged into the University of the Faroe Islands in 2008 and was renamed the Department of Nursing.
The Faroese Nursing School was set up in 1960 by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs; it follows its roots back in 1910 when medical attendants were prepared in the clinic of Tórshavn. The University of the Faroe Islands, was set up in 1965; Klaus H. Jacobsen, a Dane, was designated as the main instructor in 1970 to show courses for the examen philosophicum, an essential at an ideal opportunity to seek after advanced education in Denmark. After Denmark relinquished the examen philosophicum in 1971, on the activity of Jacobsen and Kjartan Hoydal the college acknowledged its first full-time science understudies in the pre-winter of 1972. Education in the Faroe Islands was controlled by Denmark under the Home Rule Act, until in the late 1990s its organization was exchanged to the Faroese government as an issue of nearby interest.
In 1979 obligation on instructive matters began exchanging from Denmark to the Faroese powers, with the Faroese government getting full financial obligation of training in 1988.[4] By 1996 training turned into the obligation of the Faroese government; this strategy was finished in 2002, went before by the foundation of the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture. The organization of the Nursing School was gone to the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture in 2000 and the degree was perceived as a four year college education in 2003. In 2005 the marine schools of route and designing converged to shape the Center of Maritime Studies and Engineering. On 1 August 2008 the Faroese School of Education and the Faroese School of Nursing where joined into the University turning into its departments.
Structure-
Schools in the towns around the islands were not normal until late nineteenth century. This is the principal school in Sørvágur, worked from 1885–87 (the stone building). Presently it houses the Music School of Vágar island.
Essential and lower auxiliary education
Mandatory instruction in the Faroe Islands is accommodated nine years from the age of 7 to 16. Primary training in the Faroe Islands starts toward the start of the school year in the timetable year in which the tyke has achieved the age of seven years. It is a piece of the obligatory instruction, and it keeps going no less than seven years, Primary training is given by 51 Fólkaskúli and 3 Free Schools; some of these Fólkaskúli likewise give discretionary preschool education. In 2014 there were 5,205 understudies going to essential training in the Faroe Islands.
Endless supply of the initial seven years of essential instruction, understudies can proceed with their studies in lower optional training in the eighth and ninth grade and in the event that they wish to, they can likewise take the tenth year of Fólkaskúli. 66% of the understudies from the ninth grade took the tenth grade of Fólkaskúlin also. Lower auxiliary instruction keeps going a few years and, as with essential training, it is given by Fólkaskúli and is free of charge. The initial two years are a piece of the mandatory instruction, while the third year is discretionary, however an essential to proceed to the upper high school. In 2014 there were 1,932 understudies in lower optional education.
The last examination from the Fólkaskúli offers access to upper auxiliary training like "Studentaskúlin", "Fiskivinnuskúlin" or other comparative optional schools which takes three years or (Higher Preparatory Examination (HF)) which takes two years. It likewise offers access to the one year FHS Yrkisnám from Føroya Handilsskúli (Faroese business school) or the 3-year optional training Búskaparbreytin (Economy auxiliary school) from Føroya Handilsskúli.
Upper optional education
Upper optional instruction is offered by eight schools that offer five diverse kind of courses. The Studentaskúli is a scholastically arranged three-year-long school. Upon fruition understudies can apply for affirmation in advanced education institutions. This sort of training is offered at three schools: Føroya Studentaskúli og HF-Skeið in Tórshavn, Studentaskúlin og HF-skeiðið í Eysturoy in Kambsdalur and Miðnámsskúlin í Suðuroy in Suðuroy. Another sort of upper auxiliary instruction is HF, which is a 2-year scholastically situated course for grown-ups, that is offered at Føroya Studentaskúli og HF-Skeið and Studentaskúlin og HF-skeiðið í Eysturoy. The Business College (Faroese: Føroya Handilsskúli), additionally called FHS, offers a three-year curiculum and its consummation permits its graduated class to keep on higher education. It is likewise conceivable to take a one-year instruction from the Business College. There are two Business Colleges, one in Tórshavn and one Kambsdalur. The Technical school (Faroese: Tekniski skúlin) offers courses on a few specialized fields alongside apprenticeship. It is offered in two schools, one in Tórshavn and one in Klaksvík. Its graduated class can interest advanced education in specialized sciences or take advanced education courses of the Technical College. The Fisheries College (Faroese: Fiskivinnuskúlin ) in Vestmanna. It centers in the angling business and sustenance science and upon its culmination understudies can proceed in advanced education considers identified with the angling industry.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-
Oceanic education
There are two professional oceanic schools in the Faroe Islands: The Center of Maritime Studies and Engineering (Faroese: Vinnuháskúlin) in Tórshavn and the Sjónam Maritime School (Faroese: Sjónám) in Klaksvík.
Vinnuháskúlin offers three-year studies to wind up a shipmaster or a marine architect, notwithstanding shorter renditions of these, while it likewise offers a one and a half-year studies to end up a commander and individual marine courses. In 2010 100% of the graduates for captain, shipmaster, mechanical engineer and marine specialist were men. All alumni from Vinnuháskúlin in June 2015 were men.
Sjónam in Klaksvík offers a 1½ year shipmaster training, which qualifies its graduated class to be either First Officer or Captain on vendor ships up to 3000 gross tonnage. So as to access the training, the candidates must satisfy the terms as indicated by Ship Master Law (Kunngerð um skiparaútbúgving) number 107 of 20 September 2005, i.e. the candidates must have experience from taking a shot at board a boat which is no less than 20 gross tonnage for no less than 36 month, of which no less than year and a half ought to be from an ale vessel of no less than 200 gross tonnage. They ought to likewise have completed the nine years of mandatory essential and lower auxiliary school with at any rate "passed" results in Faroese, Danish, English, material science, science and math.
Sjónám additionally offers a shorter oceanic instruction of six months. It is a boat associate training (Faroese: skipsatstøðingur) which gives the understudies to have the capacity to perform a wide range of work on deck and in the motor room on board a boat. The candidates must be no less than 17 and a half years old and more likely than not finished the 9 years of Fólkaskúlin. The candidates should likewise have a wellbeing declaration for sailors. This training together with 9 months which are required for turning into a capable sailor, qualifies the graduated class for the 1½ year long shipmaster instruction.
General Health School
Miðnámsskúlin í Suðuroy. The school building comprises of the Suðuroy Gymnasium and the Health School. It is situated in Suðuroy in Porkeri, close to the town Hov.
The Public Faroese Health School (Faroese: Heilsuskúli Føroya) in Suðuroy is a professional school offering two sorts of training. The social insurance right hand training (Heilsuhjálpari) takes fifteen months. Taking after graduation, students can leave the school and work in home consideration and retirement homes. On the other hand they can proceed with an additional 22 months and turn into a partner medical attendant (heilsurøktari). The associate medical attendant can work in different spots, for the most part in retirement homes or healing centers. The alumni from the Health School are fundamentally ladies. In 2012 very nearly 90% of the School's graduates were ladies.
Other schools
The Faroe Music School (Faroese: Musikkskúlin) runs fourteen establishments around the islands that are in charge of showing music in the Faroe Islands.[26][44] The students pay somewhere around 1,200 and 1,600 DKK every year keeping in mind the end goal to get lessons, the cost relies on upon which region the understudy lives in. In Tórshavn there are classes, called Musikkspælistova, for kids up to 6 years costing 600 DKK for a year; it likewise offers a three-year musical instruction program in Tórshavn, which is a center reach preparing for Faroese individuals matured 14 to 25, costing 2,400 DKK every year and conceding up to 8 students a year.
The Evening School (Faroese: Kvøldskúli or Frítíðarundirvísing), offers an assortment of courses for everybody and Faroese dialect lessons for outsiders. Courses range from handiwork, music lessons, outside dialects to swimming. The courses are offered by the districts, with half of the instructors' wages paid by them and the rest paid by the Ministry of Culture and Education; the Ministry of Culture pays 100% of the wages in instances of debilitated individuals.
Furthermore there are the School of Home Economics (Faroese: Húsarhaldsskúli Føroya) and the Folk High School (Faroese: Føroya Fólkaháskúli) offering half-year courses in nourishment and eating regimen, cleanliness, sowing, weaving and humanities, expressions and imaginative subjects individually.
Higher education
Division of Faroese Language and Literature, University of the Faroe Islands.
Advanced education in the Faroe Islands is for the most part embraced by the University of the Faroe Islands, an open examination college giving scholarly degrees. Individual advanced education courses are offered by The Business School. Numerous Faroese seek after advanced education out of the islands, mostly in Denmark; in August 2015 a report indicated 1,345 Faroese understudies in Denmark, 904 in the Faroe Islands and 182 in different nations. Studni, the Faroese Student Grant Fund, gives understudy concedes and advances to Faroese understudies, to concentrate either in the Faroe Islands or abroad.
College of the Faroe Islands
Advanced education is offered by the, Tórshavn based, University of the Faroe Islands (Faroese: Fróðskaparsetur Føroya).[26] It was established in 1965, as Academia Færoensis, by individuals from the Faroese Academy of Sciences.[53] The college is partitioned in two resources: the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education and the Faculty of Natural and Health Sciences, offering a few B.Sc. degrees, M.Sc. degrees and Ph.D.s. It is openly subsidized and in 2010 it got around 68 million DKK. Confirmation prerequisites incorporate taking the upper auxiliary school leaving examination. Particular divisions could put extra prerequisites, e.g. in 2015 the Software Engineering office required an evaluation of 6/13 in arithmetic.
Advanced education from the Business School
It is conceivable to take individual advanced education courses in Commerce from the Business School in Kambsdalur and in Tórshavn. The graduated class can work in the meantime and take one course every semester. Following three years they will have accomplished 60 ECTS which is the same as the principal part of the HD training. They can likewise take the second part of the HD instruction from the Business College, and they can likewise join it with courses from the Aarhus University by means of removed training. On the off chance that they wish to concentrate further for at MBA they should take it from a college in Denmark, i.e. the Aarhus University.
Research
Research in the Faroe Islands is directed by the Faroese Research Council (Faroese: Granskingarráðið). Every year the Parliament of the Faroe Islands designates cash to the Faroese Research Foundation, and it is the Faroese Research Council that chooses its beneficiaries. From 2002 to 2012 the Research Foundation had gotten more than 70 million DKK. Exploration is directed by a few legislative establishments (i.e. exhibition halls, research facilities, clinics, marine organizations) and the University of the Faroe Islands.
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