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– I think what comes out is horrible. My claim is that this happens when systems get too big. Then a layer of bureaucracy and management emerges that drives both higher salaries and greater use of consultants.
Center Party leader Marit Arnstad is on the Storting’s education committee. She is upset after reading Dagbladet’s cases about pay distributions, management coaching and the use of consultants at the Education Agency in Oslo.
– In the Oslo school, we have seen in part that it also means stricter management and less trust in the individual teacher. Plus, this steals resources from individual school work, Arnstad says.
– I don’t think that this could have happened in a smaller municipality, both the mayor and the school administration would have faced the local population in a much more direct way, he adds.
Call on the carpet: – Enough is enough
Ask the city council to take responsibility
The school councilor, councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV), said for the first time at the town hall that she was not responsible for the payday party. Since then, he has said otherwise.
Arnstad leaves no doubt:
– I think the red-green city council can not only blame others, says Arnstad.
– They must show a willingness to refine the practice that has been allowed to develop. So I am not so concerned that someone should go, I think both Gerhardsen and Torkildsen should sit down and clean. They can start by reducing the number of tests and trials, then save a few million on consulting, says Arnstad.
Oslo’s red-green city council writes in its 2019 annual report that its goal is to reduce the use of consultants in the municipality. Inga Marte Thorkildsen told Dagbladet yesterday that they are on track to halve the use of consultants at the Education Agency.
After the revelations: – Shocked
Top of work responds
Last night, Dagbladet revealed that the agency requested outside assistance for NOK 12 million to plan reading tests in elementary school. The use of millions was justified by a “lack of competition” in the Education Agency.
Arnstad’s colleague on the education committee, Torstein Tvedt Solberg (Labor Party), also reacts to the cases he reads about the Oslo school in Dagbladet.
– I think everyone who reads these cases reacts, it is a great job that must be done both in the municipalities and in the state to limit the use of consultants and the rising salaries of executives, says Solberg.
Blame the right
He is the mouthpiece of the Labor Party’s education policy and blames the Conservatives rather than the current red-green Oslo city hall.
– I am glad that the city council has started that cleanup job and has greatly reduced the use of consultants in the Education Agency. Nor do I understand that they say that a job is done. “I have much more confidence that the red-green city council will be able to fix this, rather than the conservatives who allowed this to grow when they were in office,” says Tvedt Solberg.
– I think these cases show a bigger system problem. The use of consultants in the Government’s Education Directorate is also through the roof. Executive salaries in the state set new records annually under the Conservative government. Therefore, I hope that the involvement of the Conservatives, FrP, Venstre and KrF in the Oslo case will also be extended to their Storting colleagues, who have so far actively opposed our proposals to take action on the use of consultants and executive salaries.
Spend millions on American coaching
– It does not belong anywhere
FRP leader in Oslo, Aina Stenersen, announced on Friday morning a full review by the Education Agency.
His colleague at the Storting, Roy Steffensen, is also upset about the salaried party and the use of money at an Oslo school where Thorkildsen recently complained about a lack of money.
– Nowhere does this belong to having such an increase. The Oslo school has been well run for several years, so it is tragic that the red-green city council is spending millions of crowns on bureaucratic salaries and consultants. This is very good work from Dagbladet, and it is good that the priorities of the city council come to light.
– What do you think of the handling of the case by Thorkildsen?
-Not impress me. She rejects responsibility, even though she is responsible. I am also provoked by the fact that he complains about the lack of money, when he also spends more than 100 million crowns on re-communicating kindergartens and increases the expenses of consultants and bureaucrats, says Steffensen, spokesman for education policy at Frp .
– As a responsible councilor, you must focus on the main tasks. The Oslo school is resource-intensive, and then there are the teachers and school leaders that you should be in contact with and seek help in formulating good policy. Resources should go to the school, not spent on training and millions of salaries for bureaucrats, says Steffensen.
Add after salary rage
Salary, headhunters and coaching
While teachers at the Oslo school are encouraged to have strong salary restraint, several principals have received large salary increases, up to 140,000 kronor a year. This has generated strong reactions, both politically and from many teachers at the Oslo school.
The cases meant that the agency this weekend changed procedures for salary increases among the many directors.
Recently, the agency also took the top spot, going from 22 to 28 directors, despite promises to the contrary. The average salary of directors is at least NOK 1.1 million.
Dagbladet recently reported that the Education Agency has also spent NOK 8 million on Ernst & Young headhunters and consultants. On Wednesday, Dagbladet revealed the use of $ 2.5 million in American leadership training.
On Friday, it was announced that the opposition in Oslo is now considering a hearing and will demand a full review by the Education Agency.
