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The college entrance exam will have to wait until spring, right? The issue will be raised in the Education Committee on Tuesday. Stock Photography.
What will it really be like? Will there be a college entrance exam this fall?
There have been some trips, but perhaps the picture will clear up after a meeting of the Riksdag Education Committee today, where, among others, the Minister of Higher Education Matilda Ernkrans (S) is called.
The university entrance exam has put the government under some pressure. No one disputed that the spring test was set in the forced crown mode. But when the Swedish Council of Universities and Colleges (UHR) announced that fall exams could not be taken contagiously either, criticism arose.
Four parties – Liberals, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Sweden Democrats – are demanding that the government ensure there is a test this fall, and they voted last week through the Education Committee to take the lead on the issue.
Proper thinker
The following day, the Minister of Higher Education, Matilda Ernkrans, presented a possible opening: limit the number of examiners. Only those who have never written the test before would have the opportunity.
“I hope universities, colleges and UHR will think carefully if this will not increase their chances of completing the test this fall,” Matilda Ernkrans told TT.
Rather, what the minister asked was that the UHR and the 21 interested universities should reconsider. The heaviest bodies in the group had already announced, in a quick round of consultations, that it would be very difficult to run a test this fall. UHR’s response states that even with a restriction, there would be tens of thousands of test printers.
Instead, the higher education sector wants to wait until the spring semester, when the examiners can be divided into two exams.
Don’t back down
Matilda Ernkrans has made it clear that the infection control situation must weigh more. But you are also aware of the requirements of the Education Committee. And Roger Haddad (left), the committee’s first vice chairman, is unwilling to back down.
– We want a college entrance exam to take place this fall, and that requirement applies as long as nothing new emerges. If, for example, the Public Health Agency comes out and advises against taking the test this fall, then we should accept it, he says.
In addition to Ernkrans, UHR CEO Karin Röding and university director Eino Örnfeldt from Stockholm University have also been called to the education committee. Stockholm University is the largest test organizer in the country and finds it impossible at this stage to get a test for some 16,000 first-time writers in the region this fall.
– Normally we would be in the process of recruiting and training test personnel, and now many more would be needed. What should be put in place is to make sure we can test this spring. You also have to remember that a canceled test does not prevent anyone from studying at the university. About 80 percent of all education does not require selection, says Eino Örnfeldt.
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