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Education in Sweden is mandatory for children between ages 5/6 and 15/16 depending on when in the year they were born. The school year in Sweden runs from mid–late August to early/mid–June. The Christmas holiday from mid–December to early January divides the Swedish school year into two terms. Preschool is free for all families.
In Tanzania, a fee free education was introduced for all the government schools in 2014. [39] Government would pay the fees, however parents were required to pay for the school uniform and other materials. [40] In Mali, free education implementation is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the turn of the century, education was often too ...
A Högskola (= university college in English) is an institution of higher education, similar to a university but typically smaller and with PhD-rights in fewer areas. The right to award doctoral degrees is in Sweden given and monitored by the Swedish Higher Education Authority in the same way for universities and university colleges.
Timeline of women's education. Appearance. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886: Anandibai Joshee from India (left) with Kei Okami from Japan (center) and Sabat Islambooly from Syria (right). All three completed their medical studies and each of them was the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western ...
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
www.gu.se /en /. The University of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, [ 2 ] the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and, with 53,624 students and 6,707 staff members, [ 3 ] it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic ...
Enacted by. Riksdag. Commenced. 17 December 1992. The Swedish Higher Education Act is the Swedish law governing higher education in Sweden. [1] [2] Around 80% of the funding for higher education in Sweden is provided by the government. [3] The Swedish higher education system is a part of the Bologna Process .
Today's featured picture. The greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) is a species of spider in the tarantula family, Theraphosidae. It is native to the Paraguaná Peninsula in the Venezuelan state of Falcón. The spider features metallic blue legs and a blue-green carapace, which give it its name.