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Phones In Schools Likely To Be Banned Next Year
Mobile phones will be banned in primary schools across Iceland next school year, reports RÚV. The Ministry of Education and Children is currently drafting regulations on the ban. Denmark is preparing legislation to ban mobile phones and personal tablets in Danish schools.…
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Iceland Invests Most In Preschools Compared To Europe
Among 37 European countries, Iceland and Sweden were the top funders of public preschool services in 2021 in proportion to GDP, RÚV reports. According to the EU education network Eurydice, which published a report on preschool-level quality in Europe, Iceland invested 1,8%…
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School Board Responds To Alleged Sexual Offense During School Hours
The administrators and school board of the Polytechnic School of Suðurland say they take the alleged sexual offense that occurred at the school seriously, and they intend to hire an independent person to advise on cases like this, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]The Bargain…
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Police Undergo Firearms, Use Of Force Trainings
Proper handling of firearms and use of force is an increasingly important part of police education and training, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]To celebrate reaching 200 RVK Newscast episodes on Youtube, as well as the new eruption at Meradalir, we’re having a volcano themed…
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Menntaskóli Borgarfjarðar Becomes First Upper Secondary School To Implement STEAM Courses
Menntaskóli Borgarfjarðar recently received a grant from the Development Fund for Study Materials to offer a special “STEAM” course, making it the first upper secondary school in the country to do so. [su_pullquote]We are having a summer sale on all our Icelandic…
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Sustainability Education Should Be Included In Schools
A group of teachers have sent petitions to their local governments arguing for the inclusion of sustainability education in curriculums, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]Summer Sale on T-Shirts in the Grapevine shop! We only have a chance to wear a T-shirt outdoors for about…
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Technical College Will Turn Away Hundreds Of Students
The Technical College and other vocational schools will have to turn away hundreds of students in upcoming terms, reports RÚV. [su_pullquote]Who better to ask what’s best in Reykjavík than the people who live here? Every year we round up a panel of…
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Centre Party Wants To Increase Christianity Teaching
The Centre Party is proposing that more emphasis be placed on Christian teaching in primary schools, according to Fréttablaðið. MPs from the Centre Party, as well as Brynjar Níelsson and Ásmundur Friðriksson of the Independence Party, say that Iceland’s fundamental societal values…
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Thousands Of Face Masks Donated To Secondary Schools & Universities
The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture is collaborating with Ministry of Health to ensure that secondary schools and universities have access to 20,000 to 25,000 face masks, Fréttablaðið reports. According to new guidelines, issued by The Ministry of Education, Science and…
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University Rector Publishes Announcement For Autumn Semester
The rector of the University of Iceland, Jón Atli Benediktsson, has published an announcement to the staff and students of the campus concerning the autumn semester. In the announcement he states that teaching for the new semester is underway with online teaching…
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Universities Discusses Plans For The Fall Semester
Efforts will be made to ensure that all University of Iceland students will be taught on-site at least to some extent in the fall semester, RÚV reports. This was stated in an announcement by rector Jón Atli Benediktsson sent to students and…
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Polish Teaching Not Meant To Get In The Way Of Icelandic Learning
The teachers and other school staff members in Suðurnes have been invited to take a course in Polish to better understand Polish students and their families, RÚV reports. The manager of the continuing education centre in Suðurnes says that this is not…
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VIDEO: Icelandic College Kids Celebrating The Impending End Of School Year
If you wander the streets of Reyjavík this week, you might be surprised to see groups of college-aged kids of questionable sobriety galavanting about in matching costumes. What you’re witnessing is an old Icelandic tradition called dimmisjón. These kids are celebrating the…
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Iceland Grants 15 Million ISK In Funding To National Queer Organisation
The Prime Minister’s Office and the National Queer Organisation of Iceland have signed an agreement, whereby the org will receive some 15 million ISK in funding to help in their efforts towards education, service and counselling regarding queer issues in Iceland. This…
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Icelandic Elementary School Children Behaving Worse & Worse
A task force, which has been looking into the work environment of the country’s elementary schools has found that students are becoming increasingly worse behaved, reports RÚV. Icelandic teachers have complained about increasing stress at work and that a more diverse group…
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“Make Your Own Slave” Exercise In Icelandic Primary School Textbook
An Icelandic textbook for primary school children includes an exercise prompting kids to make their own slaves, and not all parents are pleased. In a Facebook post made last Saturday, Icelander Fanný Cloé posted several photos from the textbook Frá Róm til…
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Low Wages And Digital Death: Icelandic In Crisis
The Icelandic language is vulnerable – and it’s not because of foreign loan words. In any discussion about Icelandic, Icelanders will invariably contend that their language is threatened with extinction. These threats can come from any number of speculated sources, from the…
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Iceland Gets Abysmal PISA Scores
Iceland scored dead last amongst western European countries, and the country has been on the wane in these test results since 2009. The Economist has released the results of the sixth Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which attempts to assess the…
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Education Board Updates Sex Ed To Reflect Diversity
Hafnafjörður Education Board has decided to join forces with Iceland’s National Queer Organization, Samtökin ‘78, to update the sex education curriculum in schools to reflect more diverse sexualities, reports RÚV. Earlier this year, when the proposal was brought to Hafnafjörður Town Council…
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Starting Today: Radical Summer School
Lots of students go to summer school to take another shot at calculus or get some extra credits in. But instead of learning about integrals and asymptotes, the main lessons covered at this school are solidarity and empowerment. No SparkNotes necessary. This…
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Home School Away From Home!
“You know when you sit at a table and you see three or four forks and you’re not sure where to start, we teach you all that here,” school principal Margrét D. Sigfúsdóttir says primly from behind her desk at Hússtjórnarskólinn, the…
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Dinosaurs Given Old Icelandic Names
A group of enterprising students in the Medieval Icelandic Studies programme at the University of Iceland have united to bestow dinosaurs with adequate Old Icelandic names. “For a start, we coined the word for Jurassic Park in Old Icelandic, which would have…
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We’ve Got The Power
“We’re here in order to learn how to correct the mistakes our fathers made with oil,” says Máté Osvald, a Hungarian student at Reykjavík University’s Iceland School of Energy (ISE). He is one of 36 international students who have come to Iceland…