Vocational Education and Training in Sweden
One of a series of studies on vocational education and training, this review focuses
on the vocational education and training (VET) in Sweden and concludes with policy
recommendations.
Over recent years, Sweden has launched a series of reforms to enhance involvement
of social partners in VET, to increase provision of work-based learning in VET programmes
and to promote apprenticeship. Higher vocational education and training launched in
2002 has been expanding. At the same time, numerous sectors are grappling with labour
shortages increasing pressure on VET to better match the provision to changing demand
for skills; and fewer young people opt for VET programmes than in the past.
This report suggests several ways in which the Swedish VET system may respond to these
challenges. Sweden may encourage co-operation between schools, for example by linking
it to school evaluation and funding criteria. The report also argues that Sweden may
further enhance social partners’ involvement in VET by creating a framework for systematic
social partners’ involvement at the local level and by providing social partners with
more responsibility over some aspects of VET.
Published on March 25, 2019
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