Having a child start school is an emotional day for any parent, particularly if you live outside your home country. Thankfully, in Sweden school starts rather gently. Here's what to expect.
Halmstad municipality in south-western Sweden has backtracked following a wave of criticism after it banned face masks in its schools and told a teacher to remove theirs.
In a set of new guidelines, Swedish health authorities recommend children to get tested if they show symptoms of coronavirus infection, so that they can return to school if they are otherwise well.
Remote learning remains a possibility, but not an obligation, for schools in Sweden as students around the country begin term this week, the Education Minister said on Wednesday.
Worried. Calm. Happy. Afraid. Those were among the wide range of emotions international parents in Sweden spoke of when The Local asked how readers felt about schools reopening.
This week, Sweden's 'gymnasium' upper secondary schools for over 16-year-olds will restart physical classes, five months after they were closed in March. We look at what will be different.
Swedish schools are set to reopen after the summer holidays in the coming weeks, after keeping schools for under-16s open during the pandemic. We want to hear from international parents how you feel about back-to-school season in times of corona.
Schoolchildren in several Swedish regions, including Stockholm, are set to return to school today after the February break – a week many families go on skiing holidays, and may have been in countries affected.
A Swedish youth faces trial for allegedly plotting an attack at his old high school on the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre in the United States, a leading daily reported Monday.
Sweden's National Agency for Education (Skolverket) has presented proposals for changes to the school curriculum. Here's what parents need to know about the plans.
A new report into Swedish schools ranks the country's 290 municipalities based on areas such as resources allocated to schools, teacher numbers, and pupil performance.
Malmö's oldest international school has slashed teaching hours by as much as a third for some subjects and certain year groups in the face of growing financial problems and a dramatic reduction in teaching staff.
Bladins International School, one of the most popular choices for international families living in Malmö, will lay off one in five teachers to avoid a looming budget crisis.
Police have said that an explosion at a school in Hässleholm was not terror-related, after initially detaining one man on suspicion of terrorist crimes following the incident on Thursday.
A Swedish school has been told to ditch its uniform after the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen) concluded that the policy was in breach of the law.
More than 1,700 students have joined an appeal against sexual harassment in Sweden's schools, with testimonies of abuse experienced from as young as six years old.
A ranking published on Thursday reveals the best municipalities for state schools across Sweden, with several areas showing massive improvement compared to last year.
When Slobodan Mufić's family in 2016 moved to the town of Skövde, in south-central Sweden, they expected a slew of problems related to putting their 11-year-old daughter Leona in school. Instead, Leona was met with a warm welcome and unexpected frills like getting an iPad, free lunch and taxi rides to go to her native language classes.
A Muslim school in Sweden that separated pupils by gender on a school bus did not break anti-discrimination laws in doing so, the country's Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) has judged. But the same could not be said about gender segregated sports lessons.
A new educational option has emerged for internationally minded families in Stockholm looking for an affordable international education delivered in English.
