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Three new ordinances in English
9 December 2019Three ordinances related to higher education are now available for the first time in English. In addition, all of UHR’s earlier translations of legal texts have been updated.
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Meet UHR at Saco’s student fair
25 November 2019If you’re interested in information and inspiration for higher education studies, you can meet the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) this autumn at Saco Student Fair in Stockholm 27–29 November, and Malmö 5 December.
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UHR – a step into the job market
4 November 2019Four years ago, Nerayo Bahre arrived in Sweden as a refugee from Eritrea. Today, he has a job and a social network thanks in large part to a completed placement and offer of employment at UHR.
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”Better service for those with foreign qualifications”
16 October 2019In May, UHR launched a web service for the evaluation of foreign qualifications. To date, approximately 17,400 individuals have used the evaluation service. At the same time, the number of applications for recognition statements has decreased.
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Comparison of instruction time in European compulsory school
11 July 2019Swedish students spend more time in the classroom than Finnish students, but less than Danish. French students receive significantly more instruction time in reading and writing than Swedish. In the Netherlands, the schools themselves can decide how to allocate instruction time over grades and between subjects, unlike most other countries.
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