Language centres would be affected by teacher lockout

Council-run centres providing Danish courses for foreigners could see their doors close if teacher talks fail to bear fruit

Mar 19, 2013

The teacher lockout that looks likely to take place on April 1 would also affect council-run language centres that provide Danish courses to foreigners. Privately-owned language centres would remain untouched by the conflict.

If the lockout goes in to effect, students at council-run language centres will be forced to cancel classes.

Language centre CBSI is a council-run language centre and is therefore affected by the on-going conflict between teachers and the local government association, Kommunernes Landsforening (KL). But CBSI is not involved in the negotiations and can only wait and prepare for the possibility of a lockout.

“Like everyone else, we hope that a solution is found so there will be no lockout and if it does happen, we will take it from there,” said Stig Bo Hansen, a head of department at CBSI.

CBSI has almost 1,200 students and 49 teachers who would be affected by the lockout.

According to KL, about 500 teachers in 17 council-run Danish language centres nationwide would be affected.

The affected language centres would be:

Lærdansk Kolding
Høje-Taastrup Sprogcenter
Slagelse Sprogcenter
Vestegnens Sprog- og Kompetencecenter (Brøndby)
Sprogcentret Haderslev
Sprogcenter Randers
Sprogcentret Vejle
Guldborgsund Sprog- og Integrationscenter
Sprogcenter Skive
Sprogcenter Viborg
Sprogcenter Nordsjælland
Køge Sprogcenter
CBSI Sprogcenter
Sprogcenter Furesø
Sprogcenter Aalborg
Sprogcentret Holstebro
Sprogcenter Thisted

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