we take it all from the wages of the minister of education and his cabinet!
We let the students pay for the free laptops. /s
I propose to cut on university research subsidies (the cost of these wages are immense and often m lead to non-productive research or IP which gets privatised) and subsidies for doctorates in areas where there is limited work and only leads to additional teachers/doctorates supporting the same vicious circle. (Eg. History/archeology, biology, etc.).
Not the most popular opinion, I know…
A lot easier than finding that amount of money in notional deduction or cadastral perequation.
Doe een vergelijkende studie met buitenland.
Waarom is ons onderwijs bovengemiddeld duur? Wat doen ze goedkoper dan ons (rekening houdend met het gewenste opleidingsniveau). En je zal vanzelf vinden waar er bespaard kan worden. Dit is echter lange termijn denken, je moet eerst nadenken, dan implementeren (met eventuele initiële investeringskost) en dan pas snoeien.
We shouldn’t.
So quality of our education has to go up, while trying to save 100 million at the same time.
Good luck.
Cancel the free laptops and invest a smaller budget in IT classrooms. Use FOSS software instead of paying expensive licenses everywhere.
I also don’t see the point of giving starting teachers a free laptop (as someone about to start teaching).
That’s what you get when you run government like a company.
They decided they need that money, take if from department X, don’t care what the consequences are.
Because that’s the point here: they don’t care about the consequences. They only care about the math equation.
Keep it simple, stick to the numbers.
Summary: we have too much middlemen.
I want to see the RELEVANT statistics:
1. How much of the total budget for education goes to school infrastructure?
2. How much goes to wages for teachers and principals?
3. How much is used directly for students?
Pretty sure that those three core necessities only account for a fraction of the total budget.
In Flanders, the budget goes to: “koepels”, pedagogische begeleidingsdienst, inspection, inspectors to inspect this inspection, comittees, boards, assesment groups … and not to forget: enrolling the next big reformation that each new Minister of Education needs to have on his resume.
Don’t give Arcelor mital 300mil to go from coal to gas( and maybe to hydrogen)
As a teacher I would gladly forego the new internet bonus in my paycheck. Teaching does not require a home connection above what you would get for personal use.
I’m a Scarlet user. I’ve never run into speed or traffic restrictions. I teach computer science and am the school IT-person.
But… I suspect that by foregoing this, I would be subsidizing something stupid.
Universities have more students than ever, but have to manage with the same budgets for years. And now they’re going to look for ways to shrink the budgets?
We have been consistently getting behind other countries in the quality and digitizing of our educational system. This is gonna be good…
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we take it all from the wages of the minister of education and his cabinet!
We let the students pay for the free laptops. /s
I propose to cut on university research subsidies (the cost of these wages are immense and often m lead to non-productive research or IP which gets privatised) and subsidies for doctorates in areas where there is limited work and only leads to additional teachers/doctorates supporting the same vicious circle. (Eg. History/archeology, biology, etc.).
Not the most popular opinion, I know…
A lot easier than finding that amount of money in notional deduction or cadastral perequation.
Doe een vergelijkende studie met buitenland.
Waarom is ons onderwijs bovengemiddeld duur? Wat doen ze goedkoper dan ons (rekening houdend met het gewenste opleidingsniveau). En je zal vanzelf vinden waar er bespaard kan worden. Dit is echter lange termijn denken, je moet eerst nadenken, dan implementeren (met eventuele initiële investeringskost) en dan pas snoeien.
We shouldn’t.
So quality of our education has to go up, while trying to save 100 million at the same time.
Good luck.
Cancel the free laptops and invest a smaller budget in IT classrooms. Use FOSS software instead of paying expensive licenses everywhere.
I also don’t see the point of giving starting teachers a free laptop (as someone about to start teaching).
That’s what you get when you run government like a company.
They decided they need that money, take if from department X, don’t care what the consequences are.
Because that’s the point here: they don’t care about the consequences. They only care about the math equation.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/yet_another_study_finland_has_worlds_most_cost-efficient_education_system/7454319
Keep it simple, stick to the numbers.
Summary: we have too much middlemen.
I want to see the RELEVANT statistics:
1. How much of the total budget for education goes to school infrastructure?
2. How much goes to wages for teachers and principals?
3. How much is used directly for students?
Pretty sure that those three core necessities only account for a fraction of the total budget.
In Flanders, the budget goes to: “koepels”, pedagogische begeleidingsdienst, inspection, inspectors to inspect this inspection, comittees, boards, assesment groups … and not to forget: enrolling the next big reformation that each new Minister of Education needs to have on his resume.
Don’t give Arcelor mital 300mil to go from coal to gas( and maybe to hydrogen)
As a teacher I would gladly forego the new internet bonus in my paycheck. Teaching does not require a home connection above what you would get for personal use.
I’m a Scarlet user. I’ve never run into speed or traffic restrictions. I teach computer science and am the school IT-person.
But… I suspect that by foregoing this, I would be subsidizing something stupid.
Universities have more students than ever, but have to manage with the same budgets for years. And now they’re going to look for ways to shrink the budgets?
We have been consistently getting behind other countries in the quality and digitizing of our educational system. This is gonna be good…