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Swedish Education Agency Addresses Criticism After Exam Platform Error

It was a system update that caused the error in the National Agency for Education's platform for digital national exams. The error led to the spring's digital exams being cancelled.

Swedish Education Agency Addresses Criticism After Exam Platform Error

Sweden Faces Challenges in Monitoring Private Preschools

More than every fifth child attends an independent preschool. But not all municipalities have the capacity to scrutinize the independent owners, with a risk that criminal actors may not be detected.

Sweden Faces Challenges in Monitoring Private Preschools

Researchers: "Stop the digital national tests"

There is no reason to believe that the current system for digital national tests at the Swedish National Agency for Education can be implemented on a full scale. Therefore, pull the emergency brake and stop the tests, urge several teachers and researchers.

Researchers: "Stop the digital national tests"

The School Authority: Too Many Students Want to Become Salespeople

More students are drawn to vocational programs in upper secondary school – but too many want to become salespeople and too few aim for jobs in healthcare, according to the Swedish National Agency for Education. .

The School Authority: Too Many Students Want to Become Salespeople

Now schools will be completely mobile-free

A statutory mobile ban for students in school – all day. Yes, that's what the government's investigator has come to.

Now schools will be completely mobile-free

After Emergency Stop – Schools Provided with Paper Tests

After the Swedish National Agency for Education's emergency stop for digital national exams, the authority has decided to ease the workload of schools. The Swedish National Agency for Education is printing and sending out paper exams to schools.

After Emergency Stop – Schools Provided with Paper Tests

Teachers' Unions Demand Compensation for Cancelled Tests

The National Agency for Education has cancelled the digital national tests this spring. Now, the Swedish Association of School Principals and the Swedish Teachers' Union want the government to "immediately" allocate extra resources for the additional costs this entails.

Teachers' Unions Demand Compensation for Cancelled Tests

The National Agency for Education on the Failure: "On Track for a Solution"

The National Agency for Education still cannot provide a definitive answer to what caused the failure of the digital national exams – which led the authority to cancel all spring exams on the Agency's test platform. We are on the track of the solution, says department head Anna Westerholm.

The National Agency for Education on the Failure: "On Track for a Solution"

At Least 20 Murdered Women Last Year – Meeting About Violence

Violence against women continues in Sweden – and in 2024, at least 20 women were murdered. On Monday, a number of authority heads met to discuss how preventive work can be strengthened.

At Least 20 Murdered Women Last Year – Meeting About Violence

Unclear what caused the test failure: "Disappointed"

The Swedish National Agency for Education has still no answers to what caused the failure with the national tests on Friday, a failure that led the authority to cancel all spring tests in the authority's test platform. .

Unclear what caused the test failure: "Disappointed"

The Trade Union on Stopped Digital Tests: Frustrating

Frustrating but also a relief. This is how Sweden's Teachers' Union vice chairman describes the Swedish National Agency for Education's announcement that they are forced to cancel the digital national tests this spring.

The Trade Union on Stopped Digital Tests: Frustrating

Complete halt for expensive digital national tests

The National Agency for Education is forced to cancel the digital national tests in the spring. The reason is that several serious errors have been detected.

Complete halt for expensive digital national tests

Investigation: Mother Tongue Does Not Harm Integration

There is nothing that suggests that mother tongue education affects integration or knowledge development negatively. Therefore, the government's investigator does not propose any suggestions for changing it.

Investigation: Mother Tongue Does Not Harm Integration

Thousands of Preschool Teachers Will Be Missing in Coming Years

Despite the fact that fewer children are being born, a severe shortage of preschool teachers is expected in the future. The newly educated are not enough to cover for all those who retire or simply leave the profession.

Thousands of Preschool Teachers Will Be Missing in Coming Years

The Government Calls for Crisis Meeting on School

The number of reports of threats and violence in school has increased by 150 percent over the last ten years. Now, Education Minister Lotta Edholm (The Liberals) is calling on authorities, trade unions, and employer organizations to a crisis meeting on safety in school.

The Government Calls for Crisis Meeting on School

Education that quickly leads to a job

Do you want a job quickly after high school? Then maybe the transport or HVAC industry is something for you. But regardless of which program you choose, it's important to take a degree, says Johan Olsson at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.

Education that quickly leads to a job

Literature Must Be Strengthened

The reading crisis will not be lifted unless the position of fiction literature is strengthened in schools and teacher training. This is claimed by some 70 literature scholars and teacher educators from the country's educational institutions in a manifesto.

Literature Must Be Strengthened

Money is lacking to support students with NPF

Two out of three headmasters lack money to be able to buy assistive devices, hire assistants or in other ways provide sufficient support to students with NPF diagnoses. This is shown by a new report from the National Agency for Education.

Money is lacking to support students with NPF

Requirements: Principals should be trained about NPF

The Social Democrats are presenting several proposals aimed at helping students with diagnoses such as ADHD and autism. The party wants headmasters to be educated to a higher degree about NPF and wants to invest in special research schools.

Requirements: Principals should be trained about NPF

300 Million Extra for Books in School

The government grant for purchasing books in schools is increased by 300 million kronor next year – to 480 million. The government is thereby continuing its investment in increased reading time and reduced screen time.

300 Million Extra for Books in School

Investigator wants to try out extra tuition

Supplementary teaching is to be provided on a trial basis to pupils in half-classes or to a selection of pupils who are deemed to need more support, writes the government's investigator Pontus Bäckström on Dagens Nyheter's debate page. .

Investigator wants to try out extra tuition

The Culture Year 2024 – Poetry, Canon, and Crisis

Bruno K Öijer fans experienced ecstasy at the same time as the young poets stepped forward. But the cultural year 2024 was marked by economic crisis and the debate about a Swedish cultural canon that dragged on.

The Culture Year 2024 – Poetry, Canon, and Crisis

Joyful News: Unique Math Boost for Swedish Students

Swedish eighth-graders go against the international trend and improve their results in mathematics. The average score is the highest in decades in the knowledge assessment Timss.

Joyful News: Unique Math Boost for Swedish Students

The Government: This is What Children Should Read in School

From Astrid Lindgren's classics to contemporary authors such as Nora Khalil and Ann-Helén Laestadius. Now, the National Agency for Education and the Arts Council are presenting the reading lists with 250 works of fiction that have been developed to support teachers.

The Government: This is What Children Should Read in School