Arts and Cultural Education in Iceland : Professor Anne Bamford

Figure 5.2.1 Availability of qualified teachers
These findings were also replicated in terms of the degree of difficulty of hiring teachers
with 24% of schools reporting it as being difficult or very difficult (Figure 5.2.2).
Figure 5.2.2 Difficulty of hiring teachers to the music schools
In music schools there was widespread reporting of a lack of availability of teachers, with
72% reporting either very little or rather little availability (Figure 5.2.3)
Figure 5.2.3 Availability of music teachers
It would appear that the lack of availability of teachers may also be due – at least in part – to
policy which limits the number of arts places available within higher education and perceptions
within higher education about quality and selection processes, as the following vignette (5.2.4)
indicates:
106