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Sweden 'an important partner': US ambassador

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Feb 12
Recently installed US ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski speaks to The Local's David Landes about US-Swedish relations and taking Swedish lessons from his two-and-half year old daughter. READ »

Preschool worker 'locked children in the dryer'

Education: 26 Jan 12
A former pre-school employee in Borås in western Sweden is facing charges of molestation for a series of offences, including punishing young children by locking them in a drying cupboard and pulling their hair. READ »

Agency slams immigrant language class failings

Education: 29 Dec 11
Many of Sweden's municipalities fail to place newly arrived immigrants in Swedish language classes within the time frames stipulated by law, a new investigation has found. READ »

Dirty diaper 'terror' keeps Swedish town on edge

Society: 18 Nov 11
A town on the east coast of Sweden has been struck by a wave of unusually smelly crimes, where dirty nappies are pilfered from bins, unwrapped by the perpetrators and strewn around public places. READ »

Five attacked by preschool wasp swarm

Society: 23 Sep 11
Five people, two adults and three children, were rushed to hospital by ambulance on Friday after having been stung by wasps at a preschool in Norrköping in eastern Sweden. READ »

Killings prompt review of school's actions

National: 22 Sep 11
Officials in Sigtuna are looking into why it took 13 days without contact from the mother before schools contacted social services about the absence of two boys, aged 4 and 8, who were found dead in a lake on Monday. READ »

Swedish preschools use GPS to avoid losing kids

Education: 21 Sep 11
Toddlers adorned with GPS transmitters are becoming an increasingly common sight at Swedish daycares and preschools in an effort to make it easier for staff to find tots who are hiding or have gone astray. READ »

Daycare 'punch clocks' catch on in Sweden

Education: 14 Sep 11
Preschoolers at a daycare in northern Sweden now have their attendance tracked through an electronic punch clock system in order to help streamline the assessment of fees. READ »

Suspected bomb was pen and green tape

National: 22 Aug 11
The object which was found on Sunday in Sköndal in southern Stockholm turned out not to contain any explosive matter but instead a pen taped over with layers of green tape. READ »

Another suspected bomb found near playground

National: 16 Aug 11
A third bomb wrapped in green tape has been discovered a few metres from a playground in the district of Sköndal in Stockholm. READ »

Teenage boy suspected of sand box blast

National: 15 Aug 11
A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing the sand box blast that injured a 4-year-old girl in the Stockholm district of Sköndal on Thursday. READ »

New lead on Stockholm preschool blast: police

National: 13 Aug 11
A four year-old girl was injured when a Stockholm preschool was hit by an explosion on Thursday. Stockholm police now have two leads in the investigation of the explosion. READ »

Homemade firecracker caused sandbox bang

Society: 12 Aug 11
A four-year-old girl was seriously injured when a homemade firecracker blew up in her hands at a pre-school in the Stockholm district of Sköndal on Thursday. READ »

Angry birds in Swedish preschooler assault

Society: 21 Jun 11
Preschool-children at a day care centre in southern Sweden have had their outdoor fun ruined by hordes of hungry and intrepid rooks. READ »

Shorter parental leave for immigrants: minister

Politics: 18 Jun 11
Immigrant parents with young children should have a shorter parental leave when the family moves to Sweden minister for enterprise and energy Maud Olofsson, said in an interview. READ »

Parental leave 'traps' immigrants at home

National: 14 Jun 11
Less parental leave for those who have just arrived in Sweden with kids will help getting immigrant women out on the labour market, according to two Swedish experts. READ »

Pressure is on - elite classes for younger students

Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 11
As the idea of elite education takes hold in Sweden, a country known for promoting equality, The Local's Karen Holst looks at the debate surrounding a decision to offer advanced classes to younger students. READ »

Abuse reports rise after Olympian's bombshell

Sport: 8 May 11
The number of reports of child sex abuse more than doubled in Sweden in the days following revelations by former Olympic high jumper Patrik Sjöberg that he was molested by his late coach and stepfather, a children's rights group has said. READ »

Swedish Olympian in coach sex abuse tell-all

Sport: 28 Apr 11
Revelations that Swedish Olympic high jumper Patrik Sjöberg faced years of sexual abuse by his late coach and stepfather have left the Swedish athletics establishment reeling. READ »

Stockholm family assigned Scientologist pre-school

Education: 27 Apr 11
A family in Stockholm were surprised to find out that their daughter had been assigned a place at a preschool with a teaching method created by L Ron Hubbard, the father of Scientology. READ »

Swedes suffer drop in disposable income

Business & Money: 9 Mar 11
The majority of Swedes will experience a drop in their disposable incomes this year in comparison to 2009, with higher mortgage costs to blame, according to a new report. READ »

Preschool pickup pressure 'hampers careers': Swedish union

Society: 7 Mar 11
Many parents feel pressured to collect their children early from preschool, or dagis, because 'everyone else picks up early', according to a report from the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union. READ »

Palme's political legacy 'put Sweden on the map'

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
As the 25th anniversary of Olof Palme’s murder is remembered The Local’s Karen Holst explores the political legacy left by the man who delivered Sweden from obscurity and into the globalising world. READ »

Swedish boy, 6, stabbed for 'wearing pink'

Society: 11 Feb 11
A 6-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck at a preschool in Jönköping in central Sweden after being targeted by class bullies for his liking of pink clothes and nail polish. READ »

Swedish preschooler left asleep in snowdrift

National: 8 Feb 11
A five-year-old was left unnoticed in a snow drift for several hours at a pre-school in Norrköping in eastern Sweden, while a four-year-old boy managed to walk home by himself from a pre-school in central Gävle on Monday. READ »

New English-language international school opens in Stockholm

Education: 28 Jan 11
A new educational option has emerged for internationally minded families in Stockholm looking for an affordable international education delivered in English. READ »

Sweden's childcare allowance 'a fiasco'

Politics: 10 Jan 11
Sweden's childcare allowance, strongly promoted by the Christian Democrats as a way to help parents who wish to spend more time at home with their young children, has been a fiasco, according to a previously unreleased report. READ »

Teaching boost urged for multicultural kids

Education: 30 Nov 10
Multilingual students at Sweden's preschools and schools are falling behind due to an inability of teachers to address their needs, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate reported on Tuesday. READ »

Many Swedes 'uninvolved' in information society: survey

Science & Technology: 26 Oct 10
One in two Swedes feel the information society is passing them by despite the country having one of the world's highest rates of internet usage, a new study has showed. READ »

New government faces ambitious autumn

Politics: 6 Oct 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt's newly installed minority government wasted no time in setting to work, announcing plans on Wednesday to present 77 motions in the next three months. READ »

Teacher sacked for schoolgirl rape Tweet

Society: 6 Oct 10
A preschool teacher in Gothenburg in western Sweden has been fired after he Tweeted about wanting to rape little girls. READ »

Teacher acquitted for arm lock on 5-year-old

Education: 4 Oct 10
A female preschool teacher facing charges for molesting a 5-year-old boy was acquitted on Monday by the district court in Varberg in western Sweden. READ »

Dream home for families close to schools: survey

Society: 27 Jul 10
Close to local preschools and schools and newly renovated rooms for each child: this what the dream home for families with children would look like, according to a study by the Association of Swedish Real Estate Agents (Mäklarsamfundet). READ »

Littorin denies buying sex: lawyer

Politics: 10 Jul 10
The lawyer of former employment minister Sven Otto Littorin said on Saturday that her client denies Aftonbladet's allegations that he bought sex. READ »

Bilingual schools give kids the edge

Education: 7 Apr 10
How do you raise a child bilingual? The most effective method is to immerse them in the language from the youngest age possible, something Futuraskolan in Stockholm has been doing for nearly a decade. READ »

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. READ »

Snowstorms hit traffic and preschool kids

Science & Technology: 27 Jan 10
A preschool was evacuated in western Sweden on Wednesday as high winds threatened to topple a 55-metre chimney. Heavy snowfall has also played havoc with traffic nationwide. READ »

Home childcare trend fuels segregation fears

National: 5 Jan 10
Sweden’s childcare allowance is proving ever more popular in heavily immigrant neighbourhoods, resulting in the closure of some preschools and prompting fears about the measure’s unintended consequences. READ »

Preschool teacher held for alleged sexual abuse

National: 2 Dec 09
A preschool teacher at an independent Christian school in Jönköping in south central Sweden is in custody on suspicions of having sexually abused several children. READ »

Police arrest Stockholm swimming pool squatters

National: 25 Nov 09
Police raided an indoor public pool south of Stockholm on Wednesday morning to remove three activists who were part of a group which had occupied the facility for nearly two months. READ »

Fury over three-year-old's retouched school photo

Society: 6 Nov 09
The father of a three-year-old girl from northern Sweden is outraged that school photographers have retouched his daughter’s school picture for the second year in a row. READ »

'I won’t let my country be taken over by xenophobes'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 09
Curiosity is the most effective weapon against xenophobia, writes journalist and head of think tank FORES Martin Ådahl, as a comment on the Sweden Democrats’ future role in Swedish politics. READ »

Benefits agency guilty of gender discrimination

Business & Money: 3 Nov 09
Four women who were denied sick benefits during their pregnancies have won a landmark discrimination case against Sweden’s National Social Insurance agency (Försäkringskassan). READ »

In defence of the eighties generation

Lifestyle: 27 Oct 09
Lazy, self-entitled and spoiled. These are just a few of the choice adjectives employed to describe the generation born in the 1980s, the first generation since Hemingway's to be characterised as “lost.” But just how accurate is the stereotype, asks The Local's Charlotte Webb. READ »

Beyond the insults: Swedish Model 2.0

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 09
As Sweden takes a battering in the US health care debate, Swedish Institute chief Olle Wästberg examines two of the insults most frequently flung: that Sweden is rampantly socialist, and that it's the poster child for neo-liberal market excesses. READ »

Preschools warned of paedophile blogger

National: 6 Aug 09
The discovery of a blog about naked children and life as an employee at a Stockholm preschool has led city officials to take action. READ »

Baby helps fill in white spaces on map

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Aug 09
Having a baby has been a real eye-opener for Joel Sherwood, who continues his Pop Culture series with a curious look at the hidden crannies he never knew existed. READ »

UN slams Sweden for child rights failure

National: 27 May 09
Sweden continues to shirk its obligations guaranteeing children the right to education, according to a United Nations committee. READ »

Swedish animal park welcomes newborn gorllia

Society: 22 May 09
Enzo, the 3-year-old gorilla at Sweden’s Kolmården animal park, has a new sibling, officials announced on Thursday. READ »

Sweden criticized for lack of effort on minority languages

Society: 7 May 09
Sweden has been taken to task by the Council of Europe for a lack of progress in raising social awareness about and promoting educational programs in the country’s five national minority languages. READ »

English skills help Swedes go global

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Mar 09
Language-learning has always been of great importance to a small country like Sweden, and good English proficiency is crucial in helping the country adapt to a globalized world, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Swedes: hard workers or hardly working?

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year. READ »

Sweden tops child welfare ranking

Society: 12 Dec 08
When it comes to caring for children, Sweden ranks highest among the world’s wealthy countries, according to a new report from the United Nations children’s organization, Unicef. READ »

Lost girl found unconscious at preschool playground

National: 16 Oct 08
A girl who was left behind at a preschool play ground after her classmates went back inside was found unconscious thirty minutes later suspected of having fallen off of a jungle gym. READ »

Foreign children 'should be taught in their own languages'

Politics: 10 Jul 08
Foreign children who move to Sweden should have a right to be taught maths and English in their native language, the opposition Green Party has said. READ »

Snakes invade Stockholm preschool

Society: 3 Jul 08
Officials at the Vinbäret preschool in Sollentuna north of Stockholm were dismayed to discover the grounds were crawling with snakes. READ »

Mum avoids conviction for tongue kissing her son

Society: 12 Jun 08
A Swedish mother charged with sexual assault for giving her six-year-old son a deep kiss has been acquitted by the Borås District Court in western Sweden. READ »

Two arrested in pre-school terror probe

National: 22 Jan 08
Two people have been arrested over the alleged theft of millions of kronor from Swedish pre-schools. The investigation is being linked to a probe into terror financing. READ »

Public think police 'doing a poor job'

National: 22 Nov 07
Police are doing a poor job at investigating crimes - particularly violence and burglary, according to a major public survey. READ »

Skövde schools in arson mystery

National: 13 Sep 06
Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area. READ »

Alliance agrees on family platform

Politics: 30 Aug 06
People who want to stay home longer with their children will get more support from the state, in a new agreement from the Alliance launched on Wednesday. READ »

"Catastrophic" rise in child diabetes

Science & Technology: 11 May 05
The number of children being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Stockholm has doubled in a decade. The reason for the rise is a mystery, say doctors. READ »

Why Swedish books don't sell in Britain

Lifestyle: 28 Sep 04
The Gothenburg Book Fair is in full swing and topics range from the British-Nordic link to the normative roles of children's literature. The Local flicks through the issues that have made it into the papers. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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