The chief executive of a largely Muslim free school in Gothenburg has been placed in custody by the Swedish Migration Agency on the orders of the country's Säpo security police. It follows the arrests of other Imams in recent months.
More than half the pupils in many of Sweden’s ‘specially vulnerable’ regions leave elementary school with no qualification, a study carried out by Sweden’s TT newswire has found.
Proposals from a commission set up to find ways of improving Sweden's schools have been met with a mixed reception, with the suggestion of a lottery system for enrolment earning criticism.
The opposition Social Democrats have demanded that state-funded, privately-run free schools lose the right to manage school admissions in the wake of revelations that some schools select their pupils according to academic aptitude.
State-funded, privately-run free schools may be turning away students with less aptitude, in breach of the law, with an undercover TV show revealing one school principal condemning "black music" and back-to-front baseball caps.
Twenty years after Sweden's school system opened the door for independent profit-making schools and expanded parents' choice, sliding results have the left-leaning opposition saying the system is a textbook example of privatization gone wrong.
JB Education, one of Sweden's largest operators of publicly funded, privately managed free schools, is shutting its operations due to a lack of students.
The government and its main opposition have agreed to new rules governing performance requirements and profits at publicly funded, privately managed free schools.
Sweden's system of state-funded privately-run free schools risks creating increasing segregation in society, international education experts have warned.
The UK has taken a page out of Sweden's textbook and is surging ahead with the free school movement. The Local’s <b>Christine Demsteader</b> looks at the lessons that can be learned from Sweden's system of publicly-financed, privately-managed schools.
Having more publicly-funded, privately-managed free schools leads to better student performance in Swedish municipalities, even for children that attend regular public schools, a new study has found.
Amid a drop in the number of Swedish school students, many of Sweden’s publicly-financed, privately-run ”free” schools are taking a financial beating that some won't be able to survive.
The National Organisation of Free Schools (Friskolornas riksförbund) wants to have national statistics on all Swedish schools' ability to reach certain quality criteria collected.
A school in western Sweden has been sued for almost a million kronor ($160,000) by four families who claim that not enough has been done to help bullied children.
While applications to start privately-run, publicly-funded free schools (friskolor) are on the rise in Sweden, there is nevertheless gathering unease about the suitability of schools being run by private companies, The Local's <b>Geoff Mortimore</b> explains.
Sweden's independent school sector continues to expand, with applications for new schools increasing 12 percent on 2010, according to new figures from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen).
Sweden's education minister Jan Björklund has sharpened his tone against privately-run, publicly-funded "free schools", conceding that there are several indications that profit takes precedence over quality.
