Adult Swedes top the list in a large international competence test. Only Finland and Japan have higher scores. The sharpest among Swedes are 25-34-year-olds, according to the report from OECD.
SwedenSnow and gale-force winds are still holding parts of the country in their grip. School buses are being cancelled and there is chaos in traffic in several places. In Västerbotten, thousands of households are without power and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute has issued an orange warning for parts of the county.
SwedenCompletely new and less comprehensive vocational programs – with special vocational tests. This is how the government's investigator wants to get more students to complete upper secondary school.
Swedish politicsThe number of reports of discrimination to the Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) continues to increase. In a new report, the school receives criticism for doing too little.
SwedenSwedish teenagers spend a large part of their lives online. In school, they are supposed to learn digital competence. But how computer-savvy are the students really? For the first time, the IT competence among Swedish students has been broadly tested in a large international measurement.
SwedenToo few students who do not pass mathematics in school receive sufficient support, shows a new report from the National Agency for Education.
SwedenBotkyrka municipality introduces language tests for all staff in elementary school, reports Dagens Nyheter. As far as we know, we are the first in the country to do this, says Helena Mellström, communications officer at the education administration, to the newspaper.
SwedenIn ten years, the reports of threats and violence in school have increased by more than 150 percent. A particularly vulnerable group is the assistants who are supposed to support students and teachers in the classrooms.
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