Conditions for teachers and other staff in schools

The plan wants to abolish market schools and the free school system and let the state take main responsibility for an equal school, which leaves no room for special qualification exemptions for certain independent schools. It also demands more teachers and investments in student health, special educators, and social support, that is, more occupational groups that relieve teaching staff. The counter-proposal's demands therefore align with the plan.

• more teachers and early interventionsdecisive»Vänsterpartiet vill se fler lärare, tidigare insatser för barn som har det kämpigt och förbättrad tillgång till lärande genom hela livet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Left Party wants to see more teachers, earlier interventions for children who are struggling, and improved access to learning throughout life.”
• state main responsibility for equal schools»För att bygga upp en jämlik skola vill vi att staten tar« (party programme ↗)“To build up an equal school we want the state to”
• abolish market schools»Vänsterpartiet vill avskaffa marknadsskolan med start nästa mandatperiod.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Left Party wants to abolish market schools starting next term.”
• more occupational groups in schools»Det krävs satsningar inte bara på undervisning utan också på elevhälsa, specialpedagoger, fritidsverksamhet och socialt stöd.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“It requires investments not only in teaching but also in student health, special educators, after-school activities, and social support.”

The party programme makes high quality a basic requirement for all education and points to good teacher training as a prerequisite; the election manifesto wants to regain control of the school and ensure that there is qualified personnel to employ. Abolishing the exceptions to the qualification requirement and improving teachers' conditions follow from these commitments. However, the plan does not mention the specific exceptions.

• quality requirement for all educationdecisive»Hög kvalitet är det grundläggande kravet på all utbildning.« (party programme ↗)“High quality is the basic requirement for all education.”
• qualified personnel»Säkerställ att det finns utbildad personal att anställa.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Ensure that there is qualified personnel to employ.”
• society's control of the school»Ta tillbaka kontrollen över skolan. Skolan ska vara till för barnen, inte ägarna.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Regain control of the school. The school should be for the children, not the owners.”
• equal requirements for all schools»Samhället ska ha full insyn i alla skolor genom offentlighetsprincipen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Society shall have full transparency in all schools through the principle of transparency.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires that teachers be professional and competent and have the education required for the task, which speaks to removing exceptions from qualification requirements regardless of provider. The plan also wants to make teaching attractive through higher wages and a good working environment and to invest in more professional groups in schools, which bears the requirement for better working conditions and more colleagues with other competences. That the plan embraces pedagogical diversity does not change the requirement for trained personnel, since all schools shall be subject to the same control.

• requirement for teacher qualificationsdecisive»Lärare ska vara professionella och kunniga och ha den utbildning som krävs för uppgiften.« (party programme ↗)“Teachers shall be professional and competent and have the education required for the task.”
• better conditions for teachers»göra det attraktivt att vara lärare genom att säkra höjda löner och en god arbetsmiljö i skolan.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“make teaching attractive by ensuring higher wages and a good working environment in schools.”
• more professional groups in schools»förstärka elevhälsan och satsa på fler skolsköterskor, specialpedagoger, psykologer och kuratorer i skolan.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“strengthen student health and invest in more school nurses, special needs teachers, psychologists and school counsellors in schools.”
• equal requirements regardless of provider»Alla skolor, oavsett huvudman, ska vara föremål för fungerande kontroll genom en stark offentlig inspektion.« (party programme ↗)“All schools, regardless of provider, shall be subject to functioning control through strong public inspection.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires that school governance be characterized by strict quality requirements and equivalence and wants to recruit more qualified teachers throughout the country. Removing exceptions to the qualification requirement and giving teachers better conditions and supporting colleagues serves both of these commitments. The plan's defense of free school choice and diversity of providers pulls in a different direction, which makes the conclusion uncertain.

• strict quality requirementsdecisive»Styrningen av skolan ska kännetecknas av strikta kvalitetskrav och likvärdighet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“School governance shall be characterized by strict quality requirements and equivalence.”
• more qualified teachers»Med hjälp av fler vägar in i läraryrket och studiemedelsavskrivning kan vi rekrytera fler behöriga lärare i hela landet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“With more routes into teaching and student grants cancellation, we can recruit more qualified teachers throughout the country.”
• school results in focus»Att förbättra skolresultaten måste vara en huvudprioritering.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Improving school results must be a main priority.”
• protected free school choice»Det fria skolvalet ska värnas« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Free school choice shall be protected”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan establishes that teaching quality is maintained with the help of teacher certification and also wants to introduce requirements for subject competence to award grades, which argues for removing exceptions to the competence requirement. The demand for more colleagues with other competence has explicit support in that a good working environment is created through support staff who handle administration and planning. The election manifesto promises that teachers shall be relieved to be able to be teachers.

• teacher certification maintains qualitydecisive»Läraryrkets ställning och kvalitet upprätthålls med hjälp av lärarlegitimationen.« (party programme ↗)“Teaching quality is maintained with the help of teacher certification.”
• tightened competence requirements»Krav på ämnesbehörighet för att sätta betyg ska införas.« (party programme ↗)“Requirements for subject competence for awarding grades shall be introduced.”
• support staff relieves teachers»En god arbetsmiljö för lärare åstadkoms bland annat genom tillgång till stödpersonal som kan ta hand om administration och planering.« (party programme ↗)“A good working environment for teachers is created, among other things, through access to support staff who can handle administration and planning.”
• relieved and well-paid teachers»Lärare ska avlastas för att kunna vara just lärare, kunna göra karriär, få betald fortbildning och få ordentligt bra betalt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Teachers shall be relieved to be able to be teachers, be able to make careers, receive paid professional development and receive decent good pay.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan says that individuals and associations operating independent schools shall be encouraged and supported by the public, and that schools that follow the curriculum and meet quality requirements shall be given considerable freedom to themselves shape instruction. Removing the exceptions for schools with their own linguistic or pedagogical tradition restricts precisely that freedom. The freedom to establish independent schools is in the plan moreover linked to identity and integration.

• support for independent schoolsdecisive»Enskilda eller sammanslutningar av medborgare som bestämmer sig för att driva fristående skolor ska uppmuntras och stödjas av det offentliga.« (party programme ↗)“Individuals or associations of citizens who decide to operate independent schools shall be encouraged and supported by the public.”
• freedom under quality requirements»Under förutsättning att skolorna har denna utgångspunkt, följer läroplanen och lever upp till kvalitetskrav, ska de ges ett stort mått av frihet att själva utforma undervisningen.« (party programme ↗)“Provided that the schools have this starting point, follow the curriculum and meet quality requirements, they shall be given considerable freedom to themselves shape instruction.”
• freedom to start schools»Medborgarna ska därför ha frihet och möjlighet att organisera sig efter eget önskemål, exempelvis kunna bilda egna sammanslutningar, starta förskolor och skolor.« (party programme ↗)“Citizens shall therefore have freedom and opportunity to organize themselves according to their own wishes, for example be able to form their own associations, start pre-schools and schools.”

The plan safeguards free school choice and the diversity of schools and directs its quality review towards results and supervision—high quality criteria for profit distribution and withdrawn licenses for schools that seriously fail—rather than removing exceptions for individual school forms. It also wants to reduce, not increase, demands on school administration. The counter-proposal's demand therefore receives no support.

• safeguarded free school choicedecisive»Det fria skolvalet gör att alla barn oavsett bakgrund och ekonomi kan välja den skola som passar dem bäst. Den friheten vill vi bevara.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Free school choice means that all children, regardless of background and economy, can choose the school that best suits them. We want to preserve that freedom.”
• quality requirements through supervision»Se till att skolor som drivs i företagsform lever upp till högt ställda kvalitetskriterier för att få göra vinstutdelning samt dra in tillståndet för skolor som allvarligt brister« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Ensure that schools operated as businesses meet high quality criteria in order to make profit distributions and withdraw licenses for schools that seriously fail”
• governance through knowledge requirements»Staten har en avgörande uppgift att först och främst fastställa och följa upp tydliga kunskapskrav.« (party programme ↗)“The state has a crucial task to first and foremost establish and follow up clear knowledge requirements.”
• less administration in schools»Minska lärarnas dokumentationskrav« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Reduce teachers' documentation requirements”

The plan wants to restore a knowledge-focused school with proven pedagogy and equal conditions in all schools and rejects fluff pedagogy; exceptions from teacher qualifications at certain independent schools and Waldorf schools conflict with that. The plan furthermore wants to strengthen the teaching profession with relief and better conditions, which is the second part of the counter-proposal.

• equal conditions and proven pedagogydecisive»Återupprätta en kunskapsfokuserad skola genom beprövad pedagogik och fokus på traditionellt lärande med lika villkor på alla skolor« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Restore a knowledge-focused school through proven pedagogy and focus on traditional learning with equal conditions in all schools”
• no to fluff pedagogy»En pedagogik som präglas av flum, normkritik och elevansvar får svårast följder för de som istället behöver lära sig om normer och tillhandahållas tydlig struktur och kunskap i skolan, som de inte får från annat håll.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“A pedagogy characterized by fluff, norm criticism and student responsibility has the worst consequences for those who instead need to learn about norms and are provided with clear structure and knowledge in school, which they do not get from elsewhere.”
• relief and better teacher conditions»Läraryrket ska stärkas med ändamålsenliga pedagogiska verktyg, avlastning och bättre villkor.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The teaching profession shall be strengthened with suitable pedagogical tools, relief and better conditions.”
• strengthened teaching profession»Ge lärare ökade befogenheter och bättre ställning i sin yrkesroll« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give teachers increased authority and better standing in their professional role”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.