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The Academedia independent school group can imagine quotas for popular independent schools. Stock Photography.
The Academedia independent school group is open to loosening the current queue system for popular independent schools. The Group can propose a quota system to increase diversity among students and thus support the idea in a research proposal.
– The problem today is that many parents are lined up in many schools, it is difficult for a recently moved family to get a place, says the group’s executive director, Marcus Strömberg, on Swedish radio Ekot.
The investigation was handed over to the government in April and is now pending consultation. A key point of the report is that parents shouldn’t be able to line up their children to a certain school far in advance, perhaps even when the child is a newborn. Instead, quotas or lotteries should be used if there are more applicants than places.
Marcus Strömberg is against the draw but is optimistic about the odds. Wait time should only be one of several criteria.
– Here we can learn from the university. The university has had different groups, quotas, where there are different ways to enter.
The National Association of Independent Schools, on the other hand, says no to fees linked to the demands of a comprehensive social composition.
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