New apartments in Lund, suggestion to lock out late students and a new burglary wave in Lund. This is last week’s Swedish news in English.
6 out of 10 want to nationalize the Swedish school system
A poll carried out by SIFO on the behalf of the national broadcasting network SVT, 61% of the participants want the elementary and high school systems to go back to being nationalized. Only 12% are against a nationalization.
The reason so many people want the school systems to be nationalized resides in the concern over the poor results and low production levels that Swedish pupils display today. Malmö University professor, Anders Jakobsson, says that the gap between the highest and lowest producing schools has doubled in the field of science.
Record of suspended people
Swedish National Police Board, Rikspolisstyrelsen, will be given permission to keep records of people who will not be granted access to sports events. The purpose of this record is to diminish violence that erupts in connection with sports events in stadiums and arenas. In 2005, a law was passed, enabling district attorneys to prohibit individuals from accessing and attending sports events. A new suggestion aims to enable Swedish National Board to keep records of suspended people, a record which is to be available for sport clubs as well.
Swedish Minister of Education: keep late students out of the classroom
Sweden is in the top in one of the PISA survey tables: late arrivals.
Swedish Minister of Education, Jan Björklund, suggests that students that come late to school be locked out of the classroom. He also claims that he would have done so in the capacity of a teacher. The high ratio of students coming late to school is an important factor in the poor results displayed by the Swedish schools in the PISA survey. Björklund points out the importance of an attitude change and that rules need to respected and followed.
Burglary wave continues in Lund
Lund police force keep receiving reports of burglary in homes. On the Lund streets Valthornsvägen, Kakelvägen, Vildandsvägen and Måsvägen, and on Enestigen in Genarp, burglars have entered homes through windows or terrace doors. The stolen goods include fine jewelry. In few of these cases, the police managed to pick up a trail.
Torn down firestation paves way for new apartments
A little more than 100 new apartments will be built in Lund. The old fire station will be torn down, which opens up for 45 new apartments. The construction is conducted under LKF, and the apartments will be ready in fall of 2015. Also, LKF is planning on building new 5-floor buildings in Linero, a project called Oden etapp 2. Oden etapp 2 is expected to be finished in fall of 2016, and a total cost of these building projects will be around 215 million SEK.
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Translation and Text: Maximilian Aleman-Tennell
