The Swedish National Agency for Education is asked to determine which courses should be offered at secondary school vocational programs, in order for students to be better able to qualify basic higher education within the framework of its program, the Government announced today.
When the upper secondary school was reformed in 2011 the programs got a clearer identity, with more demands on academic subjects in the study programs and more vocational subjects in vocational programs. Next year, the autumn term of 2014, when the first students to leave the new upper secondary school, the requirements for general admission to study at university are increased.
Earlier, it was mandatory for vocational students to take the courses required for basic higher education. The compulsion was removed in the new upper secondary school, but it’s still a right for the vocational students who want to take the additional courses required (Swedish 2 and 3 and 6 English), either in Upper Secondary School or later in adult education.
In seven of the twelve vocational programs in the new upper secondary school, there are provides opportunities to get basic eligibility within the program’s regular 2500 points, if the principals have chosen to offer such courses and the student uses their individual choices.
On the other five vocational programs, however, students must take the expanded program, at least 100 additional points beyond the usual 2500 points, in order to achieve basic competence. This is because the principals can not offer the professional courses within these programs program elaboration.
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