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The Swedish model has been put forward as a possible model for similar solutions in both the United Kingdom [86] [93] and the United States, where Per Unckel, County Governor of Stockholm and former Conservative Minister of Education, in 2009 summarized the advantages of the Swedish system in an opinion piece produced by the Libertarian think ...
VET is the vocational education and training system. [7] The VET incorporates parts of a comprehensive model of education. This model stresses active citizenship, work life orientation, and includes the preparation for future studies. Sweden's VET system is publicly run and financed.
The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and distance learning centers.
Statistics Sweden (Swedish: Statistiska centralbyrån [staˈtɪ̌sːtɪska sɛnˈtrɑ̂ːlˌbyːrɔn] ⓘ; SCB, lit. ' Central Bureau of Statistics ' ) is the Swedish government agency operating under the Ministry of Finance and responsible for producing official statistics for decision-making, debate and research.
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 .
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.
This category collects all articles about education in Sweden. Please use the respective subcategories. Please use the respective subcategories. The main article for this category is Education in Sweden .
In the gymnasium (three-year pre-university course, similar to the UK sixth form college, officially called "upper secondary school" by Skolverket, despite there being no such thing as a "lower secondary school"), the same grading system as the primary school was used until 2011, when it was changed to a six-degree system A–F (A being the highest and F for having failed). [2]