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The training is paid for by the municipality (local authority) in which the immigrant lives, and applications to take the course are made to the municipality's adult education department (kommunens vuxenutbildning). Statistics Sweden: SFI Total Female Male Students Enrolled 2003 2013, ISSN 1654-4447 p 229
Other government funded adult education in Sweden includes särvux (adult education for persons with special needs), KY (qualified vocational education), and SFI (Swedish for immigrants); in smaller municipalities these forms of adult education are often coordinated by the same education centre.
Education in Sweden is mandatory for children between ages 5/6 and 15/16 depending on when in the year they were born. The school year in Sweden runs from mid–late August to early/mid–June. The Christmas holiday from mid–December to early January divides the Swedish school year into two terms .
Christian folk high school in Jämsä, Finland. Folk high schools (also adult education center, Danish: folkehøjskole; Dutch: volkshogeschool; Finnish: kansanopisto and työväenopisto or kansalaisopisto; German: Volkshochschule and (a few) Heimvolkshochschule; Bokmål: folkehøgskole, Nynorsk: folkehøgskule; Spanish: Universidad popular; Swedish: folkhögskola; Polish: Uniwersytet ludowy ...
European Association for the Education of Adults; Formation: 1953: Type: Non-Governmental Organisation, Non-Profit Organisation: Purpose: Policy advocacy for lifelong learning at European level; promoting non-formal adult education; facilitating co–operation and impact of NGOs in lifelong learning and adult education at European level
ISCAE's origins can be traced back to 1960, when Dr. Alexander N. Charters, professor of adult education at Syracuse University, and Canadian scholar of adult education J. Roby Kidd formed a working group on international and comparative adult education at the first world conference of the World Council for Comparative Education in Ottawa.
Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES), or the International English School, is a Swedish corporation which operates independent schools (or “free schools”). IES was founded in 1993 [1] by the American teacher Barbara Bergström who moved to Sweden in 1968.
Stockholm International School (SIS) provides an international education in English to just over 820 students aged 3–18 (January 2024 figures) in the heart of Sweden's capital. Teaching International Baccalaureate Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma Programmes, the school year takes place between mid-August to mid-June and has a minimal ...