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May 28, 2012
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Non-EU students drop Swedish unis as fees bite
Education: 23 May 12
Enrollment of non-European students in Swedish universities declined drastically following the introduction of tuition fees last year, with engineering students from Asia being among those most affected by the change, a new report has found.
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Fees bring flurry of 'fake' colleges to Sweden
Education: 31 Jan 12
After the introduction of tuition fees to Swedish universities, the country has been experiencing an influx of fictitious schools requesting to establish themselves in Sweden.
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Quality of Swedish unis 'too low': minister
Education: 17 Jan 12
Sweden’s education minister Jan Björklund has slammed the quality of the country's higher education system as he unveiled plans to revamp the way university quality is monitored.
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Fees bury Swedish unis in added work: report
Education: 14 Dec 11
The new fees for non-European students at Swedish universities have created a workload disproportionate to the number of fee-paying students, according to a new report.
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Sweden battles rise in university cheating
Education: 31 Aug 11
With reports of cheating and plagiarism at Swedish universities on the rise, The Local's Geoff Mortimore looks at how big the problem really is and what's being done to address it.
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New fees prompt fears of cuts at Swedish universities
Analysis & Opinion: 22 Aug 11
Despite scholarships designed to attract foreign students following the introduction of tuition fees, some Swedish universities may be forced to cut course offerings in the face of declining foreign student enrollment, The Local's Clara Guibourg discovers.
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Foreign student numbers plummet in Sweden
Education: 28 Jun 11
Fewer than 1,300 non-European students have paid the new tuition fees required to study at Swedish universities, according to higher education officials. In 2009-10, there were more than 16,000 non-European university students in Sweden.
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'Sweden must do more to utilise foreign grads'
Society: 20 Apr 11
The government must do more to ensure that Sweden takes advantage of the benefits brought by highly educated foreigners who come to the country, Sweden's national auditor has argued.
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Sweden fails its Roma minority: report
National: 8 Apr 11
As Europe marks International Roma day, Sweden has once again come in for criticism from the Council of Europe for not living up to demands to protect the country's Roma population.
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Foreign degrees pose Swedish jobs challenge
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Mar 11
Many employers require foreign-earned diplomas and certifications to be translated and verified according to Swedish standards; an often expensive and time-consuming process, The Local's Karen Holst has found.
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Swedish universities suffer enrollment drop
Education: 24 Nov 10
The number of first-time students at Sweden's universities declined in the autumn with session overall despite a rise in overseas student numbers ahead of the introduction of tuition fees next year.
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New university admission policies to be reviewed
Education: 21 Jul 10
New higher education admission policies will be investigated even though they have just come into force, Sweden's higher education and research minister announced on Wednesday.
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Foreigners 'blocked' from college courses
Education: 19 Jul 10
Sweden’s new university admissions system discriminates against foreign students and breaks EU law, according to the country’s university regulator.
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'Foreign student places under threat': agency
Education: 12 Mar 10
New admissions regulations for Swedish universities set to be introduced in the autumn are likely to mean fewer places available for foreign students and could be in breach of EU law, according to the National Agency for Higher Education.
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Record student intake at Swedish universities
Education: 1 Mar 10
Almost 300,000 students signed up for courses at Swedish universities in 2009 - the highest number ever, according to new statistics published on Monday.
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Unions welcome teacher training overhaul
Education: 11 Feb 10
In a move welcomed by Sweden's teaching unions, the government has proposed a raft of sweeping changes to the country's teacher training system.
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'Stop discrimination of foreign doctoral candidates'
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jan 10
Sweden needs to do more to ensure foreign doctoral candidates are offered equal working conditions by the country's colleges and universities, argue students' rights advocates Martin Dackling and Lars Abrahamsson.
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'Sweden treats foreign researchers unfairly'
Education: 14 Dec 09
Sweden isn’t doing enough to ensure equal working conditions for foreign researchers pursuing doctoral studies at Swedish universities, students and teachers rights groups claim.
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More foreigners earning PhDs in Sweden
Education: 28 May 09
Foreign students make up one third of doctoral candidates studying at Swedish universities and more than half of them stay in Sweden upon completing their studies, new statistics show.
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'Clamp down on fake universities': Agency
Education: 20 May 09
The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education has appealed to the government to take steps to protect the terms "university" and "college" from abuse following recent revelations that two fake universities have set up shop in Sweden.
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Foreign students help boost numbers at Swedish colleges
Education: 27 Apr 09
The number of students enrolled at Swedish universities climbed in 2008 for the first time since the early 2000s, new statistics show. Foreign students account for a large part of the increase.
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Decision to work in Sweden proves costly for aspiring resident
Society: 24 Mar 09
An Azerbaijani’s dream of building a life with his Swedish wife in her home country is in jeopardy because of his decision to get a job.
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'Fake' universities operating in Sweden
Education: 10 Mar 09
The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education has issued a warning about two so-called fake universities operating in Sweden. Both universities offer courses up to and including doctoral level.
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Postgrad foreigners dominate in Sweden
Education: 12 Feb 09
Master's programmes offered at universities in Sweden are often dominated by foreign students. And many have no Swedish participants at all, a new report from the National Agency for Higher Education shows.
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Education agency knocks college rankings
Education: 25 Nov 08
Sweden’s National Agency for Higher Education has criticized the ranking of different universities and colleges, arguing the lists don’t help students pick the right school.
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More foreign students choose Swedish universities
Education: 20 Nov 08
The number of foreign students studying at Swedish colleges and universities continues to climb to record levels.
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Foreign students' complaints flood Swedish education agency
Education: 24 Sep 08
Complaints from foreign students who’ve been rejected from Swedish universities have left the National Agency for Higher Education (Högskoleverket) struggling to keep up.
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Government wants schools to emphasize entrepreneurship
National: 17 Sep 08
The government announced plans on Wednesday to make entrepreneurship a unifying theme in the Swedish education system.
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Stockholm University ends Steiner teacher training
Education: 26 Aug 08
Stockholm University has decided to wind up its Steiner-Waldorf teacher training. Steiner science literature is 'too much myth and too little fact', the university's teacher education committee has ruled.
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Swedish teachers fail Holocaust test
Society: 20 Aug 08
Swedish school teachers display glaring inadequacies in their knowledge of Holocaust history, according to a new study.
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'Don't bin non-European college applications'
Education: 24 Jun 08
Sweden's higher education agency has slammed a recommendation by the
Association of Swedish Higher Education that schools reject applications from non-European students without review.
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No more free education for non-Europeans
Education: 23 Jun 08
Sweden is to start charging tuition to non-European university students, according to higher education minister Lars Leijonborg.
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Equal treatment eludes female PhDs
Society: 3 Jun 08
More and more women are starting post-graduate research at Swedish colleges and universities, only to find they face a bitter reality in comparison to their male colleagues.
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More international students choose Swedish universities
Education: 26 May 08
The number of international students registered at Swedish institutions of higher education has topped the number of Swedes studying abroad.
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University slammed for suspending porn pic student
Society: 13 Mar 08
Staff at Gothenburg University have been heavily criticized by education officials for their decision to suspend a female psychology student who posed for pictures in a pornographic magazine.
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'Sweden has too many universities'
Society: 5 Aug 07
Less is more when it comes to universities. That at least is the opinion of a leading figure from the National Agency for Higher Education (Högskoleverket).
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Minister removes degree mill MBA
Politics: 21 Jun 07
Labour Minister Sven Otto Littorin has removed from his CV all references to his MBA from Fairfax University in Louisiana, a non-accredited institution widely regarded as a degree mill.
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Littorin: I should have investigated MBA course
Politics: 19 Jun 07
Sweden's labour market minister Sven Otto Littorin has said he never had a reason to question the credentials of an American college from which he took an MBA in 1997.
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Minister's MBA 'came from degree mill'
Politics: 19 Jun 07
Swedish Labour Minister Sven Otto Littorin's MBA was taken at a notorious American 'degree mill', it has been alleged. The minister has defended his qualification, but couldn't remember where the university was.
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Student berated for nude pics
Society: 14 May 07
Gothenburg University has been reported to the Justice Ombudsman after staff castigated a student who posed for a pornographic magazine.
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Failing grade for many third level courses
Society: 14 May 07
A major new study has found that the quality of third level education in Sweden has deteriorated over the last fifteen years.
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Fast-track boost for immigrant healthcare workers
Society: 28 Apr 07
Sweden is to invest 148 million kronor to ensure that immigrants educated in healthcare from countries outside the European Union are fast-tracked into care jobs.
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Sharp decline in university entrance test participants
Society: 31 Mar 07
Högskoleprovet, or the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, is a national institution. But those who sat the test on Saturday all around the country, in Swedish UN military bases and in Swedish schools abroad, represent a diminishing band.
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Swedish universities double number of overseas students
National: 13 Mar 07
The number of foreigners studying in Sweden has doubled since the late nineties, with the number of students coming from Asia increasing five-fold, according to a new report.
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Swedish teachers 'poorly trained'
Society: 28 Nov 06
People training to be teachers in Sweden are able to coast through courses without picking up vital skills, and are often given higher grades than they deserve, a new report says.
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Universities oppose fees for international students
Society: 27 Oct 06
A proposal to charge students from countries outside Europe who want to study at Swedish universities has been met with caution by the higher education establishment.
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More foreign students at Swedish universities
Society: 22 May 06
The number of foreigners studying at Swedish colleges and universities has increased steadily over the past decade, while the overall number of students has fallen.
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Agency warns of teacher surplus
Society: 15 May 06
Sweden is training thousands more teachers than are needed, according to the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, which is calling for the number of university places to be slashed as soon as possible.
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Women less likely to become professors in Sweden
Society: 15 Feb 06
A man who is doing a doctorate in Sweden is twice as likely to become a professor as a woman taking the same degree, according to a report from the National Agency for Higher Education. Hidden discrimination, says the author of the report.
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Swedish working class turns to university
Society: 6 Oct 05
The Swedish what? Yes, there is a working class in Sweden, but increasingly 'working' means reading a lot of books and 'class' is what they attend for a few hours a week.
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Student prosecuted for reading porn to kids
National: 5 Oct 05
A student at Sweden's Dramatic Institute who read a pornographic novel to a group of six year olds has been charged with sexual harassment. "Indecent and offensive," says the prosecutor.
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"Give people in suburbs job preference"
Society: 1 Sep 05
People who live in segregated areas should be preferred over other job applicants. That's the conclusion of a government investigator, who says that discrimination against immigrants is leading to a "them and us" society.
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Migration Board could demand deposit from foreign students
National: 24 Aug 05
There could be a high price to pay to be educated the Swedish way - if the Migration Board has anything to do with it. Under a new proposal foreign students will only be welcome if they've got a spare 63,000 kronor to stash in a Swedish bank account.
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Drama school sex project broke education rules
Society: 3 Jun 05
The National Agency for Higher Education delivers its report on the "school porn scandal" which erupted in January this year and its criticism of Dramatiska Institutet is damning. The arts project even broke the UN's convention on the rights of the child.
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Blog to solve student shortage
National: 20 Mar 05
Struggling to attract students, Umeå University's departments of informatics, physics and electronics turn to blogging to raise some interest among potential applicants. The university's marketing department doesn't comment.
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"Express degree" could see students' summers scrapped
National: 23 Feb 05
Why let students enjoy long summers year after year when they could be studying instead and out in the job market within two and a half years? Sweden's National Agency for Higher Education proposes a 48 week year, instilling mild panic among lecturers.
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Chinese student: "Stockholm University hid the truth"
National: 16 Dec 04
Another student speaks out about Stockholm University's MBA programme, saying that the degree he paid 170,000 crowns for was not officially recognised.
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Student to sue Stockholm University over "false MBA"
National: 8 Dec 04
An American student who paid 170,000 crowns to join an MBA programme wants his money back, alleging that the course was falsely marketed. See you in court, says the university.
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Sweden axes further education places
Society: 4 Nov 04
The government ensures there will be fewer stressed students in future by announcing cuts in university places - the first reduction in fifteen years.
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Calculating foreigners
Society: 23 Sep 04
Education minister Thomas Östros plans to put an end to ethnicity quotas in colleges, while the number of people from the new EU countries seeking work permits in Sweden is up 74% on last year.
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New lessons as autumn term begins
Society: 20 Aug 04
A new report reveals that everyone loves school - although more parents then ever are paying for their cherubs to go independent. And over the water, the Danes have had enough of Swedish medical students.
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Bloody students take Sweden for a ride
National: 11 Jun 04
Drunkenly parading around Sweden's towns causing traffic chaos - and then cheating when they get to university. No wonder students are being attacked.
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Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
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