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'Give foreign PhDs a clear path to residency in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 16 May 12
Sweden needs to change rules that strip foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH). READ »

Secret Saudi intelligence sent via Hotmail: report

National: 15 Mar 12
A high-ranking official at Sweden's defence ministry has been found to have sent notes on highly confidential negotiations with the Saudis through a private email address. READ »

Stockholm ranked among world's top student cities

Education: 15 Feb 12
Stockholm beat out Helsinki and Copenhagen, as well as several other university towns in northern Europe in a ranking of the “Best Student Cities in the World” published this week. READ »

Stefan Löfven: 'the only name all could agree on'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 12
With union leader Stefan Löfven set to take over as head of the Social Democrats, The Local takes a look at how a welder from northern Sweden found his way to the top ranks of Swedish politics. READ »

Tuition fees change Sweden's student population

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jan 12
With tuition fees for non-EEA students in effect, the makeup of Sweden’s non-European student population is shifting and the pressure is on for universities to deliver services worth selling, argues contributor Sven Hultberg Carlsson. READ »

'Uncertainty' over Swedish nuke waste storage: experts

Science & Technology: 17 Dec 11
There are still questions surrounding some important points in the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management's application for final disposition, concluded an international expert group. READ »

Virgin Atlantic tests Swedish 'green' fuel

National: 12 Oct 11
Virgin Atlantic airlines has initiated a cooperation with technology company Swedish Biofuels to start using more environmentally friendly aviation fuel. READ »

'Wrong to demand job applications in English'

Education: 1 Sep 11
Several Swedish universities and colleges have been rebuked by the Ombudsman for Justice for demanding that applications for employment be submitted in English. READ »

'Stockholm needs more housing - not fewer students'

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Aug 11
Sweden's housing minister is wrong to single out students as the solution to help alleviate pressure in Stockholm's housing market, argue Young Moderates Veronica de Jonge and Edvin Alam. READ »

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. READ »

Foreign students easy prey for Stockholm rental scams

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Aug 11
With no end in sight to the shortage of student housing in Stockholm, foreign students should be on the lookout for scam artists hoping to capitalise on their desperation, contributor Anita Badejo discovers. READ »

KTH students charged for money laundering

Business & Money: 10 Jun 11
Two students enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) were among several Stockholm residents charged on Thursday for their role in a massive swindling operation involving 100 million kronor ($16 million) in laundered money. READ »

Sida seeks answers over Burma delegation

National: 25 May 11
Two major players within the Swedish aid sector are in dispute over responsibility for inviting a Burmese delegation to Stockholm, which is alleged to have had links to the country's military regime. READ »

Massive fire leaves KTH student body reeling

Education: 5 May 11
The fire that raged though the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Wednesday have left the student body in the lurch with the loss of vital workshops. READ »

Fire destroys buildings at Stockholm's KTH

National: 4 May 11
A fire broke out in the auditorium of the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Wednesday, destroying a number of buildings. READ »

Top marks for Stockholm School of Economics

Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges. READ »

Thinking about Sweden's nuclear future

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 11
Swedish nuclear safety expert Frigyes Reisch from the Royal Institute of Technology speaks with The Local's Gabriel Stein about how the situation in Japan may impact the nuclear energy development in Sweden. READ »

Japan crisis complicates Sweden's nuclear waste storage plans

Science & Technology: 16 Mar 11
An application filed on Wednesday to store nuclear waste near the Forsmark power plant in eastern Sweden has come under fire in light of the current Japanese nuclear crisis. READ »

Karolinska named among world's top universities

Education: 11 Mar 11
Stockholm's Karolinska Institute and Lund University are among six Swedish universities named in a world top 200 list published on Thursday. READ »

Foreign students may get six months to find work

Education: 10 Mar 11
Foreign students who have completed their university studies in Sweden would get an additional six months to find employment, according to a new proposal. READ »

Sweden 'swamped' by malpractice complaints

Science & Technology: 7 Mar 11
Swedish health authorities haven't dealt with a single malpractice case since taking over responsibility for managing patient complaints at the start of the year. READ »

Swedish firm unveils eye-controlled laptop

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 11
A Swedish company has revealed the world's first eye-controlled laptop computer, allowing users to switch between windows and scroll through documents in the blink of an eye. READ »

Reinfeldt under fire over housing comments

Politics: 15 Feb 11
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has courted criticism from some quarters for suggesting that Stockholm's rental housing market is not performing as smoothly as it could. READ »

Reinfeldt slams Stockholm rental 'market'

Business & Money: 14 Feb 11
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has criticised the system for how rental apartments are apportioned in Stockholm, advocating that rental apartments in the Swedish capital be converted to tenant-owner apartments. READ »

Swedish universities prep for tuition fee fallout

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Dec 10
Despite good intentions, the decision to introduce tuition fees for non-European students who enroll at Swedish universities may end up doing more harm than good, contributor Adam Mullett discovers. READ »

Containers proposed as student housing solution

Education: 12 Nov 10
Officials in Stockholm have come up with a novel solution to address the student housing shortage afflicting university towns across the country: converting cargo containers into student residences. READ »

Reinfeldt misses out on overall majority

Politics: 23 Sep 10
The centre-right Alliance gained one extra seat in the Riksdag after Wednesday's count of advance and overseas ballots bringing it up to 173 seats, still two short of an overall majority. READ »

Live Blog: post-election developments

National: 22 Sep 10
Latest: The Liberal Party - and by extension the Alliance - has missed out one seat it needed to gain in Gothenburg to the Social Democrats - by just four votes. READ »

Alliance takes one step towards majority

Politics: 22 Sep 10
Sweden's governing Alliance coalition has preliminarily increased its number of seats in the Riksdag to 173, two short of an overall majority, as the recount of advance and overseas ballots continued on Wednesday afternoon. READ »

3 Swedish universities make top 100 list

Education: 18 Aug 10
Three Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute (KI) and Uppsala and Stockholm Universities, made the top 100 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. READ »

Backlash over student loan crackdown

Education: 21 May 10
Students are being forced to pay back tens of thousands of kronor at short notice because universities and the student loan authority can't agree on how to define a full-time student. READ »

Mortgages could be capped at 85 percent

Politics: 5 May 10
Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority has proposed that banks limit the amount offered for new residential mortgages to 85 percent of a property's market value. READ »

Universities quizzed over English requirement

Education: 23 Mar 10
The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman has launched an inquiry into demands by several Swedish universities for employment applications to be submitted in English. READ »

University massacre threat suspect released

National: 17 Mar 10
The 33-year-old student held on suspicion of the massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has been released. READ »

Student expresses regret over massacre threat

National: 16 Mar 10
A 33-year-old man arrested in connection with a massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has expressed "deep regret" over his actions, as a wave of copycat threats spread across the country. READ »

Man held over university massacre threat

National: 15 Mar 10
A man has been arrested for threatening a student massacre at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. READ »

Unions slam fees for foreign students

Education: 19 Feb 10
Student groups have roundly criticised the Swedish government's move to charge fees to non-EU/EEA college and universty students from the autumn term 2011. READ »

Fewer student swindlers suspended for cheating

Education: 29 Jan 10
A tighter control of plagiarism across the Swedish education system is thought to be working after the number of students suspended on grounds of cheating at colleges and universities fell by 15 percent last year. READ »

Swedish companies shun foreign ownership

Business & Money: 31 Dec 09
At a time when Sweden's largest automakers – both owned by American companies – are up for grabs, Swedish companies remain sceptical about foreign ownership, a new poll shows. READ »

Skype founder awarded top Swedish tech prize

Business & Money: 14 Sep 09
The Swedish founder of internet telephony software company Skype, Niklas Zennström, has been named the recipient of a prestigious prize awarded by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. READ »

Swedish study traces origins of man's best friend

Science & Technology: 3 Sep 09
A team of Swedish and Chinese researchers has discovered that the first ever dogs emerged in an area south of the Yangtze River in China some 16,000 years ago. READ »

Fuglesang heads for second space adventure

Science & Technology: 14 Aug 09
Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has begun preparations in Houston for his second trip into space. READ »

Nobel corruption probe dropped

National: 8 Aug 09
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. READ »

Iranians barred from Swedish universities

Science & Technology: 21 Jul 09
Iranian nationals have been banned from Swedish university programmes with ties to nuclear and missile technologies following a warning from the country’s security service Säpo. READ »

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. READ »

The Pirate Bay verdict: the reactions

Science & Technology: 17 Apr 09
The jail sentences for founders of The Pirate Bay have been welcomed by the entertainment industry, but some experts question what difference it will make. READ »

University maths test 'impossible to solve'

Education: 3 Apr 09
A maths test presented to students at the prestigious Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm contained a series of errors. Despite the errors the students will not be able to re-take their exam. READ »

Chinese woman missing after ferry trip

National: 24 Mar 09
A 25-year-old Chinese woman has been reported missing after disappearing from a Viking Lines ferry at the weekend. READ »

Pirate on prosecutor: 'The old bastard's crazy'

National: 2 Mar 09
Prosecutor Håkan Roswall's call for each of the defendants in The Pirate Bay trial to spend a year in prison prompted a derisive response from one of the accused. READ »

Fireworks erupt over prof's qualifications

National: 26 Feb 09
The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted several times on Thursday following a heated exchange between a Swedish media professor and record industry lawyers. READ »

Sweden's colleges catching more cheats

Education: 18 Feb 09
The number of students expelled from Sweden’s colleges and universities for cheating increased by nearly 30 percent last year, according to a recent study. READ »

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. READ »

Alphabet soup: Sweden’s many languages

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 09
Learning Swedish is a noble pursuit. When in Rome and all that. But mastering the majority mother tongue is only the beginning, as many more languages loom large on the horizon, writes Alec Forss. READ »

Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities

Society: 10 Dec 08
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet. READ »

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. READ »

One-third of Swedes want to live in gated communities: study

Society: 24 Oct 08
One in three Swedes wants to live in a gated community which prohibits unauthorized people from entering, a new study shows. READ »

The Panel: Nabeel Shehzad

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 08
Get acquainted with the members of our regular readers panel. READ »

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. READ »

Housing reform would 'force 50,000 to move'

Business & Money: 8 Sep 08
The proposal put forward by a state inquiry into Sweden’s housing market would most affect people with low incomes, claims the head of the national tenant association. READ »

Fraudsters target foreign students

National: 3 May 08
Foreign students at Swedish universities are being targeted by fraudsters. Criminals are stealing students' identities and buying goods in their names. READ »

What's on in Sweden: May 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 1 May 08
What's on this week in Sweden: Student carnival in Stockholm, Tom McRae in Gothenburg, top flight football in Malmö. READ »

'It's as if we immigrants stink of rotten fish'

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Apr 08
When deciding where in the world to study and work, Nabeel Shehzad, an engineer from Pakistan, thought Sweden seemed like the perfect place. But that was before he began to encounter discrimination on a regular basis. READ »

Making it in Sweden: the British professor

Business & Money: 30 Apr 08
British physicist Mark Pearce has seen his career go from strength to strength since moving to Sweden with his Swedish girlfriend. He is now Professor of Physics at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. READ »

Foreigners can't bank on Swedish ID

Society: 5 Mar 08
Foreign students continue to feel marginalized by Swedish society as a result of confusion regarding the issuing of Swedish identity cards. READ »

Former defence minister to lead state electricity utility

Business & Money: 7 Feb 08
Mikael Odenberg will take over as director general of Svenska Kraftnät. READ »

Sweden's Karl XII could be exhumed

Society: 11 Jan 08
Swedish scientists hope to solve the mystery of who killed King Karl XII in 1718. Image: Detail from Gustaf Cederström's painting of the king's funeral procession. READ »

Uppsala 'top Swedish university'

Society: 11 Nov 07
Uppsala and Lund Universities are among the 200 best institutions in the world, according to a new British survey. READ »

Protesters demonstrate against A-bomb waste

Science & Technology: 1 Oct 07
A ship has arrived at a plant in eastern Sweden to collect waste from Sweden's nuclear weapons programme for transport to a British reprocessing plant. Greepeace is protesting against the shipment. READ »

Top boss gave US job to fugitive brother

National: 10 Aug 07
A Swedish prisoner who has been on the run for ten years was secretly given work in the United States by his own sister, the Harvard-educated CEO of a Swedish multinational. READ »

'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). READ »

Greenpeace slams nuclear weapon waste export

Science & Technology: 20 Jul 07
Sweden's government has come under fire from Greenpeace for exporting weapons-grade plutonium to Britain's Sellafield plant (pictured) for processing. READ »

Union power should come with responsibility

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jun 07
Swedish interest rate rises have been pushed on by high wage demands from trade unions. The unions' short-term gains are being won at the expense of the economy as a whole, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus. READ »

Time to speak up for entrepreneurs

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jun 07
Sweden has many of the prerequisites for becoming a good country to be an entrepreneur. But negative attitudes to entrepreneurship need to change – something a new campaign hopes to achieve, says Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think-tank. READ »

Swedish firms need tax cuts too

Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 07
Sweden public debate on tax cuts has focused on the tax burden for individuals. But Sweden's companies also labour under one of the EU's highest tax burdens, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Who pays for Sweden's free lunch?

Analysis & Opinion: 14 May 07
Sweden's generous welfare system has long relied on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens to stop abuse of state handouts. But the system itself has served to break down the protestant work ethic, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Buying a Swedish apartment: an auction by SMS

Lifestyle: 21 Mar 07
With rental apartments like gold dust, many people new to Sweden are forced to buy a home just to get a roof over their heads. Charlotte West navigates the frantic process of buying a Swedish flat. READ »

Introducing...Dolph Lundgren

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 07
He was Hollywood's favourite Cold War Russian muscleman, but Dolph Lundgren was also quite a whizz in the lab, as Paul O'Mahony explains. READ »

Finding my new home sweet home

Lifestyle: 16 Feb 07
Housing in Sweden: Apartments in Sweden's major cities might not be as expensive as those in London or New York, but they can be pretty hard to find. Charlotte West has been navigating the complicated world of renting in Sweden. READ »

Swedish technical journal shocks with busty front cover

Society: 27 Dec 06
Osqledaren, the august journal of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, decided to replace its traditional abstract illustrated front cover with something a little more eye-catching: a buxom topless blonde. READ »

Countdown begins for space Swede

National: 9 Oct 06
With two months to go before he is hurled into space on the Discovery mission, Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has been told to get his will in order. That's encouraging. READ »

Social Democrats 'must have known' about logins

Politics: 8 Sep 06
A number of computer experts have come forward to say that the Social Democrats must have known about unauthorized attempts to log into their internal network. READ »

Karolinska in world's top 50

National: 19 Aug 06
Stockholm's Karolinska University is one of the fify best universities in the world, according to a new survey from a Chinese university. Eleven Swedish universities make the top 500. READ »

Alliance divisions over property taxes

Politics: 15 Aug 06
A suggestion from Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt that the Alliance could reduce mortgage interest tax relief has met with objections from the Christian Democrats. READ »

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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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