The company Grit Academy has been granted permission to run training courses for film editors and in the gaming industry on incorrect grounds, DN revealed yesterday.
Despite industry representatives alerting the Norwegian University of Applied Sciences, MYH, about the errors, the decision remains to let Grit Academy start the training in Malmö in the fall, with state support of up to SEK 46 million.
The revelation has sparked reactions. The employer organization Almega wants MYH to conduct a new review of the training courses.
– The University of Applied Sciences is based on the companies’ co-financing by the fact that part of the learning takes place in working life. Then it is central that training providers provide credible information and that there are companies that stand behind the training, says Per Hammar, branch manager at Almega Utbildningsföretagen.
He says that Grit Academy are not members of them, which many other organizers within the educational form are. According to him, seven out of ten yh students study at a school that is a member.
Per Hammar says that the system for university of applied sciences education is generally functioning well with a positive result.
– This is precisely why we think it is important that the Authority for the University of Applied Sciences really examines this case. When companies come in that don’t follow the rules of the game, it can be devastating for the industry, he says, adding that Almega is positive that the authority is now reviewing its system for declarations of intent.
The Center Party’s education policy spokesperson Anders Ådahl shares the picture that the university of applied sciences is generally well-functioning.
– Then it becomes so incredibly important that the money that we taxpayers spend on it is actually managed properly and properly. It must not be the case that the authority makes decisions on incorrect grounds. Then it has to be fixed, he says.
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After DN’s review he has called Minister of Education Mats Persson (L) to the Riksdag’s education committee, to ask him to explain how the government acts to ensure that tax money does not go to fraud.
Anders Ådahl believes that the government’s education policy has a too one-sided focus on education that leads to jobs, at the expense of public education.
– It becomes extra sensitive when the Minister of Education has been so clear about his direction. We think that we absolutely must meet the needs of the labor market with designed educations, but that we must also protect Swedish education and lifelong learning.
Education Minister Mats Persson (L) says he has continued confidence in MYH and “assumes that they now get to the bottom of what was broken in the management”.
“The information that emerged in the review is very upsetting. Any form of abuse or misdirection to defraud tax money is unacceptable. Public systems are repeatedly exposed to unscrupulous actors, and this is something that our authorities constantly need to work against,” Persson answers.
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