The government has appointed Maria Kjällström as the new Director General of the Swedish National Agency for Education. She will take office on 1 November.
Swedish politicsThe government is rejecting the Swedish National Agency for Education's work on developing new curricula. The government now intends to control the agency's work much more strictly. Now we are tightening the requirements on the Swedish National Agency for Education, says Minister of Education Simona Mohamsson (L).
Swedish politicsThere will be no digital national exams in schools in the next few years. The government is postponing the introduction after major technical problems. It is clear that it is a fiasco, says Lotta Edholm (L), Minister of Upper Secondary Education, Higher Education and Research.
Swedish politicsThe 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 Minister of Education says that based on the information provided by the National Agency for Education, it was "the right decision to shut down the test platform".
Swedish politicsThe 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. On Friday, it became clear that students' personal data had leaked to teachers who should not have access to this information.
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