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The alarm clocks started ringing when the PISA 2012 report was released in the end
of 2013 and the discouraging Swedish results were revealed. The Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA), which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide,
placed Sweden last among the Nordic countries and the Swedish 15-year-old students
were ranked somewhere below the average in the study, resulting in a lively debate and
strong criticism concerning the status of the Swedish school system.
In February, British Times Higher Education released their rankings of world class
universities, where internationally prestigious Swedish universities had lost their placements
from previous years of the same survey.
Maybe the focus on the current problems in the Swedish educational system was
sharpened even more in the beginning of April, when members of The Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences published a debate article discussing the bad working conditions for
elite scientists as a serious threat to Sweden’s position as a top science nation internationally.
The debate regarding the school system and conditions for highter education have
indeed been vivid during the whole year.
The uncomfortable wake up-call will hopefully be followed by a reverse of the trend. In
this newsletter are at least presented some new publications made by distinguished Swedish
scholars and experts!
Visby, November 2014
Jenny Nordenankar
EDITOR
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