{"id":596,"date":"2008-03-11T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=596"},"modified":"2008-03-11T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:21:00","slug":"swedish-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/swedish-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fynes\/196325447\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/57\/196325447_0b01e6ba74_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fynes\/196325447\/\">Swedish Middle School<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/fynes\/\">gordasm<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Spectator&#8217;s Fraser Nelson has written a good piece about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/features\/526631\/made-in-sweden-the-new-tory-education-revolution.thtml\">Swedish &#8220;free school&#8221; system<\/a> &ndash; basically a system where private schools get money from the councils depending on their number of pupils.<\/p>\n<p>AFAIK, Fraser is married to a Swede, so he&#8217;s normally fairly clued up on Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how the Swedish free school system differs from the Danish one.  I do believe it&#8217;s existed in Denmark for much longer than in Sweden, though.<\/p>\n<p>Although I might disagree with some of the finer details, it&#8217;s one of the (few) areas where I broadly agree with the Tories.  It&#8217;s absolutely ridiculous that private schools are so expensive here.  It just drives up house prices in the catchment areas of good public-sector schools, while making it harder for new ideas to spread.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish Middle School Originally uploaded by gordasm The Spectator&#8217;s Fraser Nelson has written a good piece about the Swedish &#8220;free school&#8221; system &ndash; basically a system where private schools get money from the councils depending on their number of pupils. AFAIK, Fraser is married to a Swede, so he&#8217;s normally fairly clued up on Sweden. I&#8217;m not quite sure how the Swedish free school system differs from the Danish one. I do believe it&#8217;s existed in Denmark for much longer than in Sweden, though. Although I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}