Overview of the Swedish Upper Secondary School – With focus on

Gothenburg and ICT

Lasse Keybets

City of Göteborg

Schoolsystem

• Preschool age 1 – 6

• Compulsory school 9 years

• Upper secondary school 3 years

From 1 of July 2011

• 18 national programmes

• 12 vocational programmes

• 6 programmes preparing for higher education

Introductory programmes

• 5 introductory programmes for students not eligible for the national programmes

• Preparatory education• Programme oriented individual options• Vocational introduction• Individual alternative• Language introduction

Requirements

• Different requirements to upper secondary education

• Vocational programmes, at least 8 subjects passed

• Preparing for higher education, at least 12 subjects passed

Courses and subjects

• Based on courses

• One or more courses in different subjects

• Most of the courses cover 100 credits (app 4 weeks fulltime studies)

City of Gothenburg

• 10 district councils

• 1 special council for the upper secondary schools, app 2100 employees (most of them teachers)

• App 30 independent upper secondary schools in Gothenburg

Organisation

• Director of Education, Sven Höper• Staff (economy, planning and developing,

human resources, it and quality) and a Guidance Center

• 5 districts and a Head of School District for each

• 1 – 6 principals in each upper secondary school (13 different schools)

DIGG – Program for digital competencies in the upper secondary schools and adult

education - Gothenburg

• A five year ICT-development program 2009 – 2014

• Contains a wide range of goals such as wireless networks in all schools, computers for all teachers and also education, LMS.

• DIGG-group

The DIGG-group - How we are organized

• Situated at the section for IT and Quality

• Five education areas shared between us• Skånegatan, Centrum, Lindholmen, Adult education

and schools for the intellektually challanged

• Focus areas depending of special skills

• Apple, PC, LMS, Google, Distance learning

• Monitoring school development in the ICT area

• Support the headmasters in strategic planning• Take part in the implementation of digital devices• Serve as a link between the schools and other parts of

Gothenburg• Take part of central development projects and local

school projects• Measure the ICT-skills once a year.

What do we do?

Present and upcoming challenges

• No international ICT-strategy• The responsibility is in the municipalitys• The Institute of education are going

through radical changes

Local strategic discussions

• Bring your own deviceICT as a democratic issue

• Educational resourses• Wireless networks - lots of devices• Use of ICT in the vocational schools and

the intellecually challenged• How to administrate - Much responsibility

for every user or central administration