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Swedish for immigrants (normally known as SFI or svenskundervisning för invandrare) is the national free Swedish language course offered to most categories of immigrants. Immigrants who speak Danish or Norwegian are ineligible for free Swedish tuition through SFI.
The Swedish Emigrant Institute was founded on September 11, 1965. The Swedish Emigrant Institute is located in the House of Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarnas hus) located in Växjö in Småland, Sweden. Its purpose is to collect and register source material dealing with Swedish emigration.
The Swedish higher education system differentiates between universitet and högskola (university and university college respectively). The universities are research-oriented and may award Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor's degrees in many academic fields, whereas the högskolor usually are more focused on applied sciences, and only have limited ...
The Swedish model has been put forward as a possible model for similar solutions in both the United Kingdom [86] [93] and the United States, where Per Unckel, County Governor of Stockholm and former Conservative Minister of Education, in 2009 summarized the advantages of the Swedish system in an opinion piece produced by the Libertarian think ...
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, or Swedish Agricultural University (Swedish: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU) is a public research university in Sweden. Although its main campus and head office is located in Ultuna , Uppsala , the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden; the other main facilities being ...
Stockholm University (SU) (Swedish: Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia .
The main building of the school, designed by Ivar Tengbom and built 1925–1926, is located at Sveavägen in central Stockholm. Professor Eli Heckscher, founder of economic history as an independent academic discipline Professor Bertil Ohlin developed the Heckscher–Ohlin model, the standard international mathematical model of international trade; received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic ...
The Swedish American Center, a national institute for migration studies and cultural exchange, was founded in 1960 when 100,000 Swedes emigrated to the United States. [1] The Center serves as a continuation of the activities initiated by the Emigrantregistret/Kinship Center.