Number of AI cheats more than treble at Swedish universities
After three years of things moving in a positive direction, the number of university students who received a suspension or warning increased three percent last year.
For the first time, the use of AI tools represented the most common form of cheating (it used to be standard plagiarism): from 237 students in 2024 to 851 students in 2025, according to the Swedish Higher Education Authority.
Students involved in standard plagiarism on the other hand fell from 1,338 to 755.
In total, 2,328 university students were suspended or warned last year, for various infractions of university rules. That's still fewer than one percent of all students.
Disciplinary action can also be taken against students involved in disruptive behaviour or harassment.
Swedish vocabulary: to cheat – att fuska
Swedish customers not caught up in Danske Bank leak
No customers in Sweden are affected by a leak which hit over 20,000 Danske Bank customers, said the bank.
The leak exposed protected addresses for several months before it was discovered in October 2025.
But affected customers were only informed recently, writes Danish paper Finans.dk, among others.
Swedish vocabulary: a leak – en läcka
Cleaning company tricked non-Swedish-speaker into signing termination notice
A cleaning company has been ordered to pay damages after tricking a non-Swedish-speaking employee into agreeing to her own termination.
The cleaner, who was pregnant at the time, asked her employer for five weeks of holiday in September 2024.
Her employer, who has a collective agreement, gave her a form to sign, saying it was a holiday application.
But when the Brazilian cleaner came home and showed the form to her Swedish-speaking husband, he informed her she had in fact signed a notice of termination.
But Södertörn District Court ruled in her favour, ordering the company to pay 200,000 kronor in damages, reports the Arbetet magazine.
Swedish vocabulary: to sign – att underteckna
Swedish opposition agree to submit joint reservation on transitional rules
Sweden's opposition parties have agreed to submit a joint reservation to add transitional rules which will be voted on alongside the stricter citizenship bill when it goes before parliament at the end of April.
Although the text was not formally presented at the the first preparatory meeting for the bill held by the Social Insurance Committee on the morning of Tuesday April 15th, the Social Democrats, Green Party, Centre Party and Left Party have agreed to submit a joint reservation.
"There will be common suggestion put forward to the parliament that all the opposition parties will be united behind," Niels Paarup-Petersen, immigration spokesperson for the Centre Party, told The Local.
"It's being chiselled out at the moment exactly how it's going to be written – it has to go through all the different party organisations. So the next time it comes up in the committee, I expect that there will be a common suggestion."
Ida Karkiainen, who represents the Social Democrats on the committee, also said that the four parties had agreed to write a joint text.
"We will try to write a joint reservation by the next meeting," she told The Local. "It is normal that we sync our proposals at the second or third preparatory meeting."
If two or more MPs from government-supporting parties vote in favour of the reservation when it goes before the full chamber, it will then become part of the law when passed.
Swedish vocabulary: joint – gemensam
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