The current state of the challenges for VET in Sweden

The present report is based on a review of previous research and it expands an earlier report2(Olofsson & Persson Thunqvist, 2014). By highlighting the various forms of initial VET that havebeen established in Sweden during the last decades (1991 and onwards), the present report willilluminate how different challenges have been tackled in various ways. What are the experiencesof different VET-tracks in providing access to higher education as well as work-based learningand skilled employment? In addition, in accounting for these VET-forms, we will point out thepossibilities for change within the existing educational model. The ambition is to go beyond astatic description of the “theoretically school-based regime” in Sweden and explore the potentialsfor institutional change.Nord-VET - the future of vocational education and training in the Nordic countrie