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Barton, H. Arnold "Popular Education in Sweden: Theory and Practice," in Facets of Education in the Eighteenth Century, ed. James A. Leith, (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1977) pp. 523–546. Bjorklund, Anders, et al. The market comes to education in Sweden: an evaluation of Sweden's surprising school reforms. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).
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 .
Sweden: Upper secondary school in Sweden lasts for three years (formerly four years on some programmes). "Gymnasium" is the word used to describe this stage of the education system in Sweden. The National Agency for Education has decided that gymnasium is equivalent to the international upper secondary school. [17]
As a significant proportion of immigrants arriving in Sweden are illiterate, certain courses also teach how to read, write, and tell the time using the hands of a clock. [10] The training is paid for by the municipality (local authority) in which the immigrant lives, and applications to take the course are made to the municipality's adult ...
The Education Act aims to ensure the fair and just treatment of students in Sweden. [3] The act establishes educational standards for optimum pedagogy. The system was last changed in 2011, by Education act 2010:800, [4] which came into effect on July 1, 2011 and addresses the mistreatment of students in schools and bullying.
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]
The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is responsible for welfare. This is defined as social security in the case of illness, old age and for the family; social services; health care; promotion of health and children's rights; individual help for persons with disabilities and coordination of the national disability policies.
Sámi schools, which were referred to as Nomad schools or Lapp schools before 1977, are a type of school in Sweden that runs parallel to the standard primary school system. Sámi schools are part of the Swedish public school system, and as such are governed by the same curriculum that primary schools are.