Councils fail in duty to provide mother-tongue instruction
David Landes - [email protected]
Published: 25 Feb, 2008 CET.
Updated: Mon 25 Feb 2008 07:15 CET
Over half of Sweden’s municipalities don’t offer lessons taught in students’ native languages, according to a survey carried out by Swedish Radio.
The primary cause is a lack of qualified teachers.
Students with Somali, Roma, or Arabic as their first language are most affected.
Three of four municipalities have also had difficulty recruiting instructors to lead mother-tongue classes.
“We’re not going to let ourselves accept such ‘excuses’ from the municipalities. They must show that they are trying to recruit,” said Alf Johansson, a lawyer with the inspection division of the National Agency for Education.
250 of Sweden’s 290 municipalities participated in the survey.
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The primary cause is a lack of qualified teachers.
Students with Somali, Roma, or Arabic as their first language are most affected.
Three of four municipalities have also had difficulty recruiting instructors to lead mother-tongue classes.
“We’re not going to let ourselves accept such ‘excuses’ from the municipalities. They must show that they are trying to recruit,” said Alf Johansson, a lawyer with the inspection division of the National Agency for Education.
250 of Sweden’s 290 municipalities participated in the survey.
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