# previous year (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover previous year. Page: Feed: --- ## [Staff in pre-primary schools in 2024](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/staff-in-pre-primary-schools-in-2024/) _2026-07-02 · News Statice_ In December 2024 there were 7,069 staff members working in pre-primary schools in Iceland, an increase of 106 from the previous year. Of those, 1,504 were educated as pre-primary teachers and 307 as other licenced teachers. There were over 20,200 children attending pre-primary schools in Iceland in December 2024. ## [Graduates from natural sciences no longer the majority](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/graduations-from-upper-secondary-and-tertiary-education-2024-and-2025/) _2026-06-22 · News Statice_ Most students graduating with a matriculation examination in 2025 graduated from a line of study programmes classified as “other”, i.e. unspecified or open study tracks. This is the first year in nearly a decade, since 2016, that the natural sciences line of study was not the largest among graduating students. ## [Enrolment rate at tertiary level declined](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/students-at-upper-secondary-level-and-tertiary-level-2025/) _2026-06-03 · News Statice_ The enrolment rate at the tertiary level decreased slightly between 2024 and 2025 according to Statistics Iceland‘s new data on education enrolment. The largest decrease among men was observed among 25-year-olds, where the enrolment rate fell from 13.7% in 2024 to 10.8% in 2025. Among women, the largest decrease was among 26-year-olds , from 20.7% to 18.0%. ## [Halfway Through Spring 2026 · Notes on YC · Natecation](https://www.natecation.com/notes-on-yc-spring-2026/) _2026-05-11 · Natecation RSS Feed_ We’re now six weeks into Y Combinator’s Spring 2026 batch with Harbor — a little over halfway through the program — with five weeks to go… ## [Five media operators retain 88% of media revenue](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/media/media-revenue-2024/) _2026-04-15 · News Statice_ Media revenues in 2024 amounted to 30.3 billion ISK. Of this total, user-generated revenues accounted for just under 18.7 billion ISK, while advertising revenues totaled 11.6 billion ISK. Adjusted for constant prices, total media revenues declined by 3% compared to the previous year. This decrease is attributable to a 4% reduction in user revenues and a 2% contraction in advertising revenues. ## [Half of one year old children attend pre-primary schools](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/children-in-pre-primary-schools-2024/) _2026-04-01 · News Statice_ There were over 20,200 children attending pre-primary schools in Iceland in December 2024. The proportion of children attending pre-primary school was 88% and had increased by 2% from previous year, when compared with children 1-5 years old. The proportion of one year olds in pre-primary schools varies greatly by region, highest 84% in the Westfjords and lowest in the Southwest, 9%. That year 258… ## [Advertising expenditure doubles over a decade and a half](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/media/advertising-revenue-2024/) _2026-03-31 · News Statice_ Total payments for the placement of advertisements increased by 5% in 2024 compared with a contraction of approximately 3% the previous year, measured at constant prices. The turnaround is explained by increased spending on advertising in foreign media. Payments to foreign media rose by approximately eleven percent, while advertising revenues of domestic media contracted slightly between 2023 and… ## [Most university graduates from social sciences in 2024](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/completion-rate-from-tertiary-education-2024/) _2026-03-13 · News Statice_ A total of 5,276 students graduated from university in 2024. The largest number of graduates were from the field of social sciences, and women made up the majority of graduates in most fields. In total, 3,630 university graduates were female and 1,646 were male. Roughly half of the graduates, or 51.4%, completed a first university degree, of whom 1,775 were female and 937 were male. ## [2025 in Review · Starting Up · Natecation](https://www.natecation.com/starting-up-2025-in-review/) _2026-01-02 · Natecation RSS Feed_ Previous years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Putting together a personal “year-in-review” at the end of each year has become one… ## [More teachers with a teaching licence in compulsory schools](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/staff-in-compulsory-schools-in-2024/) _2025-12-16 · News Statice_ During the school year 2024-2025 81.8% of teaching staff in compulsory schools in Iceland had a teaching licence, compared with 81.3 in the previous year. The number of teachers with a teaching licence increased by 57 from the autumn of 2023. ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kphS77xUNP5z) _2025-12-16 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [More than 42% of new entrants graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in three years](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/completion-rate-and-dropout-from-tertiary-education-2023/) _2025-10-14 · News Statice_ In the autumn of 2017 there were 2,213 new entrants in three year Bachelor’s degree programmes in universities in Iceland. Three years later, 42.3% had graduated on time with a bachelor’s degree. An additional 1.3% had graduated from other tertiary programmes, such as two-year diploma programmes. ## [More students at the upper secondary and tertiary level in the autumn of 2024](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/students-in-upper-secondary-and-tertiary-education-2024/) _2025-09-03 · News Statice_ There were 44,758 students attending education at levels above compulsory education in Iceland in the autumn of 2024, an increase of 1,312 students from the previous year, or 3.0%. There were more students attending all levels except for the doctoral level, where there were 52 fewer students than in the previous year. ## [Never more compulsory school pupils in private schools](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/pupils-in-compulsory-schools-2024/) _2025-07-31 · News Statice_ There were 47,162 pupils in compulsory education in Iceland in the autumn of 2024, 345 fewer than in the previous year, a 0.7% decrease. A total of 174 compulsory schools were operating in Iceland in the 2024-2025 school year, one fewer than in the previous year. Private schools were 13 with almost 1,560 pupils, the largest number of pupils ever attending private compulsory schools. Three public… ## [Higher completion rate in upper secondary education among students with tertiary educated parents](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/education/completion-rate-and-dropout-from-upper-secondary-education-2023/) _2025-07-03 · News Statice_ More than 64% of 4,411 new entrants at the upper secondary level of education in 2019 had graduated in 2023, a similar proportion as among new entrants in 2018. Almost 15% of new entrants were still in education without having graduated four years after entering and almost 21% had dropped out. ## [2024 in Review · Heading North · Natecation](https://www.natecation.com/heading-north-2024-in-review/) _2025-01-13 · Natecation RSS Feed_ Previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. At the end of each year, I like to write a year in review. In large part, they’re a way… ## [When each proud fighter brags](https://blog.rossry.net/chisness/) _2025-01-12 · Ross Rheingans-Yoo · Icosian Reflections_ Remembering Max Chiswick, may his memory be a blessing. ## [User-generated revenue 62% of mass media’s revenue](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/media/media-revenue-2023/) _2024-12-18 · News Statice_ In 2023, the revenues of domestic media experienced a decline of 4%. Despite a modest increase in user-generated income of 1.6%, advertising revenues contracted by 12% year-on-year. The predominant cause of this downturn can be traced to the diminishing income of daily and weekly newspapers, which saw a staggering quarter reduction of revenue at constant prices when compared to the previous year. ## [Donations 2022-2024](https://blog.rossry.net/donations-2024/) _2024-12-14 · Ross Rheingans-Yoo · Icosian Reflections_ Where I'm donating in 2024, where I donated in 2022/2023, why, and how my approach changed from previous years. ## [Publication of media revenue 2023 postponed](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/media/publication-of-media-revenue-2023-postponed/) _2024-12-11 · News Statice_ Publication of a news release on media revenue 2023, which was scheduled today 11 December 2024, has been postponed until 18 December. ## [Ten percent decrease in advertising purchases in Icelandic media](https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/media/advertising-revenue-of-the-media-2023/) _2024-11-27 · News Statice_ Total payments for advertising placements decreased by 3% last year after a one-third increase in the two preceding years following the Covid-19 pandemic, calculated at constant prices. The decline in the advertising market last year was entirely due to lower payments to domestic media. Advertising revenues for domestic media shrank by nearly 10% while payments to foreign media increased by 4%. ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UKXFaZINuHYK) _2024-11-27 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [The SEC’s Accredited Investor Rules Hurt the Startup Ecosystem · Let Startup Employees Invest in Other Startups · Natecation](https://www.natecation.com/let-startup-employees-invest-in-other-startups/) _2024-11-17 · Natecation RSS Feed_ Originally published in The Information on October 31st, 2024. For about 18 months, between mid-2021 and early 2023, I may have been one of…