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Dagbladet was able to report yesterday that several directors of the Education Agency have had a million salary increased significantly recently.
While teachers have been asked to show restraint in the 2020 crisis, several principals received a salary increase of more than 10 percent in August this year.
Some directors have had their one millionth salary increased by more than NOK 100,000. There are now 28 directors in the Oslo Education Agency, all with salaries of more than 1.1 million NOK.
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Millions to consultants
Dagbladet can now report that the Education Agency has also spent millions on consulting and headhunting assistance.
In connection with a controversial reorganization following the resignation of former education director Astrid Søgnen, the agency hired Ernst & Young.
Price: NOK 6.6 million.
«In addition to mapping tasks and lines of responsibility, they have also contributed to the evaluation of various organizational models.“The responsible city councilor, Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV), declares a written explanation of the use of the money to which Dagbladet has access.
He further explains that a thorough external review was necessary, as the agency had not reorganized in nearly 20 years.
«Before the reorganization process began, the Education Agency assessed that a comprehensive organizational review was necessary to obtain a complete overview of the organization’s resources, competence, and need for change. Thorkildsen reports.
SV Councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen is responsible for the Education Agency in Oslo. The agency is run by Marte Gerhardsen, who was hired by Thorkildsen.
26 directors with a million salary
Headhunters to 1.3 million
The number of principals at the Oslo school has also increased considerably recently. To get help for these high-level hires, the Education Agency has used the Visindi recruiting company.
Dagbladet is aware that the price for headhunters ended at 1.37 million crowns.
In total, the Education Agency has recently spent NOK 8 million on external aid from Ernst & Young and Visindi.
Complained about lack of money
It was also less than a week since Thorkildsen came out on VG and complained about his lack of money at the Oslo school:
– There’s a pretty desperate town hall that stands here, and says I don’t have the hell of an oil fund to just leave my hand. It’s a different situation in Oslo than at the state level, Thorkildsen said.
Hallstein Bjercke (V) believes that the case is very serious and shakes his head due to the lack of money that Thorkildsen expressed.
– Inga Marte Thorkildsen can start by using the money she already has in a more sensible way before complaining to the press, she tells Dagbladet.
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– The use of these millions of consultants is very problematic. The education agency has spent a lot of money hiring more principals and giving them more salary, and on top of this, millions are being spent on a reorganization that no one has asked for. So far, these millions of consultants have only sparked more riots at the Oslo school, adds Bjerke.
– Eight million is quite a lot of textbooks, iPads or substitute lessons in Oslo schools, says the Liberal Party.
Eivor Evenrud in Rødt also reacts to the use of consultants.
– This seems silly. I myself have been a teacher and I understand how desperately idiotic these millions of consultants seem to all Oslo teachers right now. Rødt has made it clear for several years that we do not want such consulting help. It is completely unwise to use money in an Oslo school where the money should go to teachers and students, he tells Dagbladet.
Dagbladet has failed to get a comment from Mars Gerhardsen on this case.
