Education in Sweden is compulsory for all children in class 1, class 9-vanligtvis from the child's seventh birthday to the end of the calendar year of the child's sixteenth birthday, spring term protection , the school year in Sweden runs from mid-August and early/mid-June. Christmas holiday from mid December to early January divides Swedish school year into two terms. Homeschooling is prohibited, unless there are "exceptional circumstances".
One year after the year of the children should not be accepted for pre-school education (nursery). For the school both help contains an environment that stimulates development and learning for children and allow parents to combine parenthood with work or study. during the financial year before children begin primary education offered to all children a space in a preschool class (for shoe spawning class), which combines the pre-school pedagogical methods with compulsory schooling.Between ages 6/7 and 15/16, children attend elementary school (Elementary), divided into three phases. Most schools in Sweden is the lead run, but there are also independent and publicly funded schools, known as "schools". Education in schools has many objectives in common with municipal school, but he has a different direction of municipal schools. a handful of boarding schools, known as "private schools", financed by tuition fees paid in particular.
2008, statistics showed that all Swedes aged postal rate, 15% have completed only compulsory education (the highest level of achievement), secondary education, only 46%, 14% only years of higher education in less than 3 years and 22% of post-secondary education, 3 years or more, Women are more educated than men (26% of women compared with men at 19% have post-secondary education, 3 years or more). Education is highest among 25-34 years, and it decreases with age. both secondary and university education is financed by taxes. Some Swedes go straight to work after school. Brings together with several other European countries, the Government also allows private hours international students engaged in a given at Swedish institutions, although there has been talk of change.Swedish students 15 years of age have a higher average score 22 in PISA assessments, being considerably higher or lower than the average in the OECD. only Canada, the United States and Japan have higher levels of holders of higher-education diplomas.
