‘Tvind’ colleges and schools. Teachers Group headquarters and other administrative buildings in Ulfborg, Grindsted and elsewhere. ‘Luxury’ properties for use of Teachers Group.
Information and links to be added to this page
COLLEGES IN DENMARK
Up to date list of Teachers Group colleges at the Tvind School Centre in Ulfborg and elsewhere in Denmark – to come.
Andrius Rudeiciukas (Holsted College, Denmark, 2008)
An anecdotal account by a volunteer of what it’s like to ‘fundraise’ for Holsted College on the streets of Scandinavia – a very long blog entry, but with a sad and surprising ending. On the blog ‘Excuse me, can I bother you for a moment?‘
NEWS
23rd November 2009
Danish Supreme Court: Amdi and Kirsten are in charge
Again and again tvindalert.com has revealed, that nothing important happens in the many and very different branches of the international Tvind/Humana-movement without the approval of the top bosses in the Teachers Group, and that means Mogens Amdi Petersen and his follower in life, Kirsten Larsen.
That is now confirmed by a brand new verdict from the Danish Supreme Court, November 20.
During the last 10 years Tvind has pushed for one of its many former schools, Juelsminde, to be awarded financial compensation from the Danish state for the ‘lex Tvind’ years 1997-1999, when the state refused to provide public funding to Tvind schools.
If the school had won, it would have meant millions of Danish Kroner would have to be handed over to the many other now-closed schools. To win the case the school in Juelsminde would have had to prove it was an independent school in those years, and not a part of a bigger “business”.
But on Friday last week, the case reached the Supreme Court, and the verdict turned down Tvind’s claims. The Supreme Court said, that none the many schools was independent. They were each a part of the ‘Tvind-corporation’ – and were “directed by bodies and individuals” in Tvind.
The verdict specifically mentions Mogens Amdi Petersen, Kirsten Larsen and their Teachers Group. It also refers to to proofs offered in the later criminal investigations gainst Tvinds Humanitarian Fund.
Here is the significant part of the verdict from Friday:
“Details of the case, particularly from former employees of schools connected to Tvind, as confirmed by information obtained during the later criminal investigation in the case against individuals in Tvind, shows that the schools were significantly led by bodies and individuals in Tvind, including KLAP (Kirsten Larsen and Mogens Amdi Petersen) and the Teachers Group.”
Tvind has to pay the costs of the trial – because it lost. They will have to pay 350.000 DKr.
26th March 2009
Muslim student is told to leave Tvind college in Denmark
A 35 year old British volunteer, Yasin Fox, was excluded from the college at Tvind in Denmark after just five weeks – because he is a practising Muslim.
Despite having apparently excellent marks, he was called into a meeting in early March and told he would have to leave. Mr Fox contacted Tvind Alert directly with his story, reproduced here with his permission.
Tvind Alert asked for an interview with Steen Conradsen, a senior Tvind teacher at the college, but received no response.
>>>> Read Yasin Fox’s own story
>>>> Contact Yasin Fox
Please credit Tvind Alert as the source of this information
RECENT MEDIA REPORTS
19th-20th March 2009
Danish Broadcasting TV and Radio
Reports by Arne Skadhede
Ok friends, a couple of good days in the medias. Yesterday evening on prime time Danish TV 9 o’clock news, an item about Tvind / Humana / Planet Aid in UK. Then this morning on the radio news a rather long piece about Humana in Berlin with an interview with our old friend, Frank Nordhausen from Berliner Zeitung, and with Alexander Schudy, spokesperson for BER, the co-ordinating body for the 70 NGO’s in Berlin which is fighting Humana and with a spokesperson from the Government. And then this evening on the primetime 9 o’clock news, another item about Humana in Berlin/Germany. And mentioning Tvindalert.
Below is a link to Danish TV. Scroll down to “Tvind i Tyskland….. 21:08.47″
http://www.dr.dk/DR1/TVAVISEN/tvaindslag.htm
THE STORY OF TVIND IN DENMARK
Events as they happened. A Danish timeline.
1996: Danish Government withdraws funding from Tvind schools.
The Danish Folketinget (Parliament) enacted the so-called ‘Lex Tvind’, overnight removing state-funding for nearly 30 Tvind schools. Technically, it was not a law against Tvind – it was a law that, more or less, said schools must be independent and not a part of central lead group of schools. But in fact it was a law against the Tvind schools – and it was only those schools that lost their state-funding.
Actually it was a bad law – from a democratic perspective. It was a bad kind of collective punishment – without investigating every school independently. A few years later the Supreme Court found the law illegal. Instead the Ministry of Education “investigated” the schools one bye one – and the result was the same: They lost their state-funding.
Danish journalist Frede Jakobsen
STATEMENT BY STEEN THOMSEN
Concerning Tvind
Last updated 1st March 2010
