#Anne archy free#

Pupils with the worst prospects are collected together in one school and those with better prospects in another.” “Researchers are pretty much unanimous about that. “The school system we have in Sweden today, which is unique in the world and no other country has chosen to imitate, is a system which essentially drives increased segregation,” she said in an interview in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper at the end of last month.

#Anne archy free#

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson looks set to campaign on a pledge to ban free schools – dismissed as the marketing school, “schools driven by market forces” – from siphoning off profits. In the run-up to September’s election, schools are likely to be one of the big issues. The system of school choice has been blamed for increasing segregation. This has partly been due to a decline in the performance of Swedish pupils compared to those of other countries in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The system has come under growing criticism over the past ten years. Since the “free school reform” in 1992, private and non-profit companies have been able to run schools in Sweden, with the state paying them for each pupil educated. We’ve previously published interviews with foreign teachers at the IES (Internationella Engelska Skolan, International English School) free school chain here, here, and here, and are now looking into other schools as well. The survey was carried out as part of The Local’s investigation into schools in Sweden. And almost a fifth ( 29 respondents, 18 percent) sent their child or children to a free school run by a non-profit organisation. More than a third (34 percent) sent their child to an international school offering the International Baccalaureate diploma (which could be municipal, private, or non-profit).Īlmost a quarter (39 respondents, 24.4 percent) sent their children to a profit-making free school.

Our survey was not scientific, but out of the 157 people who responded before we closed it, 65 (41 percent) sent their child or children to a standard municipally-run school which did not offer an international programme as part of their teaching.