Danish educational ceiling
repealed Danish rule limiting access to multiple higher educations
The Danish educational ceiling (Danish: uddannelsesloft(et)) is a repealed Danish rule limiting access to multiple higher educations in order to avoid double education.
The rule called for restricting persons from accessing full-time, state-funded higher education if those persons had already completed a state-funded higher education on a similar or lower level, though some exceptions were made for enrollment into educations with particularly low unemployment rates after graduation.
Background
The law which implemented the rule was proposed on November 9, 2016, by Minister of Higher Education and Science Ulla Tørnæs. The law was at the time of proposal estimated to free up DKK 342.3 million in the national budget, which was to be directed towards unemployment benefits instead.
The proposal was passed in the Folketing on December 19, 2016, with 79 votes for (from parties V, S, DF, LA, KF) and 24 against (from the mainly left-wing parties EL, SF, RV and Å).
The rule drew intense criticism from students, educational institutions, worker's unions and corporations.
Amendment
The rule was amended the following month of January 2017. The amendment relaxed the heavy restrictions on educational reenrollments, replacing the life-time restriction of education graduates from pursuing further state-funded education with a required six-year waiting period between the graduation from one education and the subsequent enrollment into another. Specifically, after a six-year waiting period:
vocational university ('erhvervsakademi') graduates would again be allowed to attend vocational university.
persons with educations falling into the categories 'Professionsbachelor' or 'akademiske bachelorer' as well as other persons with a higher education of category 'medium-length' would again be allowed to enter a second educational program of similar kind.
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