Compared with larger countries, there are not many higher education opportunities for journalists in Iceland. The NUIJ sometimes organises educational courses, often in cooperation with the University of Iceland and University of Akureyri and the Nordic Journalism Center (NJC), but attendance is often low. According to NUIJ’s collective wage agreement with Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise, journalists are entitled to a two-month paid leave every five years for further education. No information is available on the extent to which that is used, but several journalists are known to have attended NJC courses during their leave.
The journalists interviewed had not attended any training recently, but mentioned that they knew that it was possible to apply for training courses and in some cases, to go abroad for this. Most said that they had not really thought about this recently, as there is very little time to plan these types of activities with so much going on in their daily work life.
