The system was last changed in 2011, by Education act 2010:800,[4] which came into effect on July 1, 2011 and addresses the mistreatment of students in schools and bullying.

There are certification requirements for teaching in a preschool or grade school, which include holding qualifying diploma.

The three main topics on recent polls, according to the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, are Raising achievements for students, education for large numbers of immigrant children and young citizens in Sweden, and giving teachers the skills to manage and teach students with special needs and disabilities.

This model stresses active citizenship, work life orientation, and includes the preparation for future studies.

There are many rapidly growing programs through the VET system that include: the growth of unemployment, changing skill requirements, new intercultural context, lifelong learning, and deskilling and upgrading.

[clarification needed] Another aspect of the Glass Project includes a utopian logic of educational reform due to criticism of the old school pedagogy.

Some of these skills are flexibility, adaption, creativity, risk taking or expanding the comfort zone, critical thinking and self resilience.