Vouchers ‘widen quality gap’ in Sweden’s schools
The introduction of school vouchers in Sweden, allowing pupils to shop around for their school, could explain the widening gap in quality between different schools, a new report has claimed. The...
View ArticleSwedish parties agree to major free-school reform
The government and its main opposition have agreed to new rules governing performance requirements and profits at publicly funded, privately managed free schools. Among other things, the new accord...
View ArticleUppsala English school’s ‘tough love’ breaks law
The Swedish Schools Inspectorate has ruled that a “disciplinary contract” used by the International English School (IES) in Uppsala is in breach of the law, despite the school’s attempt to defend its...
View ArticleScandal ousts Stockholm economics school head
The president of the Stockholm School of Economics, one of Sweden’s most prestigious universities, has been forced out in response to a scandal over his hiring of a high-ranking official who’d been...
View ArticleSweden ranks second in world uni rankings
Sweden’s university education system was rated as the second best in the world and the best overall in Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday. The ranking measures which countries provide...
View ArticleSchool ‘forgets’ to teach required course
With graduation only days away, students at a high school in Gothenburg are outraged after learning they must complete a required course in religion that the school somehow neglected to teach them....
View ArticleMajor Swedish free school firm to shut down
JB Education, one of Sweden’s largest operators of publicly funded, privately managed free schools, is shutting its operations due to a lack of students. “We think it’s horrible that it’s happening...
View ArticleBankruptcy hits major Swedish free school firm
JB Education, one of Sweden’s largest operators of publicly funded, privately managed free schools, announced on Tuesday it would declare bankruptcy. A the end of May, JB Education sent shockwaves...
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Belgium’s education system needs to answer its own questions of morality
Religious teachings … splitting pupils into confessional groups may contribute to divisions between faiths. Photograph: Image Source/Alamy It is 8am and Corine Vida, 50, is preparing for a class of...
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Conference on higher education held
Prof Nana Jane Opoku – Education Minister Professor Naana Jane Opoku- Agyemeng, Minister of Education on Tuesday said Government welcomes discussions on the need for a Council for Higher Education and...
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French woman accused of disguising herself as daughter to sit exam
French students take a Baccalauréat philosophy exam in Paris. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images With the Baccalauréat exam season under way in France amid endless media reports on stress,...
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Germans are speaking Denglish â by borrowing words from us
Denglish? It’s enough to turn older Germans to drink. Photograph: Alamy Name: Denglish. AKA: Germlish, Angleutsch. Appearance: English, surrounded by German. Something to do with Dunkirk? No,...
View ArticleSwedish free school system ‘needs tweaking’
Twenty years after Sweden’s school system opened the door for independent profit-making schools and expanded parents’ choice, sliding results have the left-leaning opposition saying the system is a...
View ArticlePolice can search schools for asylum kids
Children of undocumented immigrants hiding in Sweden will have the right to go to school in the autumn and the police will have the right to search for them there, ending uncertainty over conflicting...
View ArticleCareer-savvy Swedes shun gap-year tradition
Taking a year out before university is common in Sweden, with thousands of teenagers going overseas before embarking on their studies. While The Local’s Elodie Pradet finds out the gap year is still de...
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My hero: Roddy Doyle by Kerry Hudson
Roddy Doyle: ‘The Commitments was the first time I’d read about the world I came from in a proper book,’ says Kerry Hudson. Photograph: Patrick Bolger for the Guardian Roddy Doyle is one of Britain’s...
View ArticleNew curbs on venture capitalist-owned schools
Sweden plans to curtail venture capital firms running publicly funded, privately managed free schools, Education Minister Jan Björklund said on Thursday. “We can’t outlaw profits, because then no one...
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Bricks and mortarboard: first Lego-funded school opens in Denmark
Pupil activities includes drawing, Danish lessons and ‘unit of inquiry’ periods to stimulate creative thinking. Photograph: DasBüro A two-storey yellow slide dominates one room, another resembles the...
View ArticleThree Swedish unis in world’s top 100: ranking
A ranking of the best 500 universities around the world saw three institutions from Sweden inside the top hundred, with Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute finishing the highest of the three at 44th...
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Louis Killen obituary
Louis Killen in 1965. He popularised songs that became folk club standards such as The Leaving of Liverpool and The Wild Rover. Photograph: Brian Shuel The decision in 2010 by the great Tyneside folk...
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