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Compare and contrast: Childcare in Sweden and the UK

Education: March 11th, 2008 by PO

Britain is currently looking to Sweden for ideas at all levels of the educational system. Here, The Guardian compares and contrasts the daycare systems in the two countries:

Swedish children do not start school until they are seven, with a voluntary reception class at the age of six, while British children are up at dawn with full days in class at the age of five. Two separate countries with similar childcare strategy, but very different values.


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