The expenditure for higher education also comprises the public expenditure for basic research and for the State education grant and loan scheme. It should be noted that it is among the older people in the workforce that you find most people without a vocationally qualifying education, and that the workforce as such is becoming more and more well-educated. In 1993, approx. The aim of the school is more than just to ensure that children and young people acquire a certain knowledge. It is also to convey to them the central values of our outlook on man and society and to see to it that they become able citizens in society.
Democracy plays a role both in the form and contents of the school.
And the education for active participation in democracy starts by involving the pupils during their time at school and making them responsible for the decisions taken. Only by doing so is it possible to ensure the credibility of the education in democracy. The labour market's growing demand for such qualifications is well-documented through a.o. This requires that the individual is able to co-operate, and at the same time he or she must to an ever greater extent be able to think independently and be willing to take on project management. In the Danish education system, we have therefore now begun to focus more on teaching and working methods which can further develop the independence, creativity, co-operation skills etc.