Sweden

Sweden for VISCED by Mats Öström

Experts situated in Country

• Mats Öström Ross Tensta Gymnasium
• Seth Norberg Skolverket

Education in Country

Source: Skolverket The Swedish education system consists of pre-school, school and adult education. They are a part of a goal guided system where:

• parliament and the government sets national goals and guidelines, for example, school laws and curriculum
• municipalities and other school owners allocates resources and organizes activities based on local conditions so that national goals and requirements can be met
• schools accordingly choose an approach that suits them.

Skolverket monitors, evaluates and reviews the pre-school, school and adult education. Skolverket also produces curriculum, grading criteria and general guidelines and more. Skolinspektionen controls that pre-schools, schools and adult education follows the laws and makes sure they maintain good quality.

Costs 2009 (Source: Skolverket) tot. billion SEK per student SEK Pre-school 50,6 114000 Leisure-time center 11,9 33900 Compulsory school 77,4 83000 Comp. intellectual disabilities 4,3 367400 Upper secondary 37,1 90400 Upper sec for intellectual disabilities 2,7 288600 Upper sec for adults 3,7 44000 Swedish for immigrants 1,5 35200

Schools in Country

The Swedish School system

Further and Higher education

Universities in Country

SourceSweden ranks highly according to several of the indicators used in the OECD:

• Funding: Sweden devotes 1.7% of GDP to higher education and research, half of which goes towards research and third cycle (doctoral) programmes.
• Expansion: Between 1995 and 2005, the number of students in higher education rose by about 50%. In 2010, there were 433,000 students enrolled in first (undergraduate) and second (Master's) cycle programmes.
• Well-educated population: 30% of the Swedish population between 30 and 64 years has taken a minimum of 120 higher education credits, equivalent to two years of full-time study.
• Disciplines: Sweden awards a high proportion of qualifications in medicine and health sciences.
• Third cycle (doctoral) studies: Sweden awards a high number of doctorates: 2.7% in relation to the size of a typical age cohort.

Total costs for higher level of education: 54498201000 SEK (Source: Högskoleverket)

Source: Högskoleverket In Sweden there are 47 universities and colleges who may issue a Swedish degrees.35 of these are public. 26 educational institutions authorized to award degrees at first, second and third levels, the other has only authorized to award degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Moreover, there are five individual trainers who only has a degree in psychotherapy condition (not on map). Map of all universities and colleges Some universities are known as private education, that colleges run by non-state actors, such as the foundations or associations. The government has given them the right to grant degrees under the Swedish degree structure. Some examples are Chalmers University of Technology, Stockholm School of Economics and Jönköping University, all of which have a wide range of training courses and also has the right to award degrees at the doctoral level. Other private education can only give degrees in a particular area, such as Beckman's College of Design and Örebro Theological Seminary.

List of all universitis and colleges

• Beckmans designhögskola

• Blekinge tekniska högskola

• Center för Cognitiv Psykoterapi och Utbildning i Göteborg AB

• Chalmers tekniska högskola

• Dans- och cirkushögskolan

• Ericastiftelsen

• Ersta Sköndal högskola

• Förbundet S:t Lukas utbildningsinstitut

• Försvarshögskolan

• Gammelkroppa skogsskola

• Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan

• Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

• Högskolan Dalarna

• Högskolan i Borås

• Högskolan i Gävle

• Högskolan i Halmstad

• Högskolan i Jönköping

• Högskolan i Skövde

• Högskolan Kristianstad

• Högskolan på Gotland

• Högskolan Väst

• Johannelunds teologiska högskola

• Karlstads universitet

• Karolinska institutet

• Konstfack

• Kungl. Konsthögskolan

• Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm

• Kungl. Tekniska högskolan (KTH)

• Luleå tekniska universitet

• Lunds universitet

• Malmö högskola

• Mittuniversitetet

• Mälardalens högskola

• Newmaninstitutet

• Operahögskolan i Stockholm

• Röda Korsets högskola

• Sophiahemmet högskola

• Stockholms Akademi för Psykoterapiutbildning

• Stockholms dramatiska högskola

• Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut

• Stockholms universitet

• Svenska Institutet för kognitiv psykoterapi

• Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

• Södertörns högskola

• Teologiska Högskolan, Stockholm

• Umeå universitet

• Uppsala universitet

• Örebro Teologiska Högskola

• Örebro universitet

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