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From BBC: Sweden loses top marks for education

by Branwen Jeffreys, Education Editor

In Gothenburg’s main square I watch as a crowd of rowdy, happy teenagers pile out of the back of a flatbed truck and set off coloured smoke bombs.

All dressed up with jaunty caps, and prom dresses they are celebrating the end of their school days with a parade.

But they are part of a generation which many now fear has been let down by the education system in Sweden.

Read the rest of the story at BBC News.

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