Raising school completion rates and providing high-quality professional training in Sweden

This chapter discusses Sweden’s upper secondary education system, especially its performance for disadvantaged and at-risk youth. It looks at early school leaving in Sweden, policies aimed at combating school dropout, and at ways of designing education programmes for students who are not successful in the mainstream school system. It then examines vocational education and training in Sweden, with a focus on workplace based training programmes, and career guidance at school. Finally, it gives an overview of social services offered in school, and the co-ordination of these services.