Getting a job or education in Sweden often requires you to prove your Swedish skills. There’s no single official certificate – instead, there's a mix of tests and providers. Here’s how they work, what they cost, and which one will fit you best.
The Swedish Migration Agency has set a new 30-day target for concluding residency permit applications from foreign PhD students and their dependents, in what it hopes will mean better service for higher education.
The threat of espionage at Swedish universities is growing, according to Sweden’s security police, with Russia, China and Iran the most active players. What happens to researchers from these countries caught in the middle of geopolitics?
Nearly 90 percent of new students are moving to a city where it takes more than a month to find an apartment due to housing shortages, the latest annual housing report from the Swedish National Union of Students (SFS) has found. Here are the cities worst affected.
People moving to Malmö to study now have to wait as long as a year to receive accommodation, Milena Milosavljević, the president of the Student Union in the city, has told The Local. The situation, she says, is "urgent and acute".
Students and researchers will be able to stay in Sweden for up to a year after finishing their studies in order to job-hunt, after parliament approved new rules around residence permits.
Students across Sweden will start their studies as the academic year begins over the next few weeks. But due to a major housing shortage, many of them won't have secure accommodation until the start of the next term, or even longer.
Applying to an exchange programme can be truly stressful, considering each application and country has its own set of unique requirements. For those coming to Sweden from a US university, here are the key things to bear in mind when wading through the administrative parts of the application.
The Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) has outlined some of the unanswered questions about the future of British students in Sweden in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
