Higher Education in Sweden
Source: www.studyinsweden.se
Starting with the 2007
academic year, Swedish higher education institutions are switching to a
new degree structure that conforms to the Bologna Process, a Europe-wide
standardisation drive for higher education.
The new degree
structure creates three levels of higher education – a first level,
second level, and third level, each with minimum requirements for entry.
Degrees awarded at each level are defined in terms of the expected
results and abilities of students (“learning outcomes”). Higher
education institutions should specify objectives for all courses at the
first and second levels, describing the student’s expected learning
outcomes at the conclusion of the course. This clarifies the knowledge
each student is expected to possess at the end of the course in order to
pass the course.
Sweden is also introducing a new credit system,
“högskolepoäng” (higher education credits), which replaces the old
Swedish system and which is compatible with the European Credit Transfer
and Accumulation System (ECTS) credit system. Under the new Swedish
system, one academic year of full-time studies is equivalent to 60
higher education credits. Forty old Swedish credit points equal 60 new
higher education credits (and 60 ECTS).
Read more about higher
education in Sweden:
www.studyinsweden.se
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Last modified3 May 2007