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Sweden: 'Immigrant kids need more schooling' Via the Local : The Swedish government has revealed a new directive aimed at improving immigrant students� education and integration into Sweden, revolving around longer compulsory schooling and a shift in lesson priorities. (...) Key issues regarding these foreign students, who make up nine percent of Sweden�s primary school student population, revolved around how to integrate the children and raise the quality of their education by considering lesson priorities and additional compulsory schooling. �For recently arrived children, schooling is the key to integration. Students today are older when they come to Sweden. It puts greater demands on the Swedish schools that receive them,� wrote the government in the statement. Only 63 percent of the foreign-born students passed their final high school exams in 2010, a trend the government indicated is worsening.  ( source )

Austria: Kurz tackles immigration at school level Via the Austrian Times : Integration Secretary Sebastian Kurz, 26, was at the ministry of interior affairs this week discussing with educationalists whether schools were failing in their mission of integration. (...) Going further, he stated how: �In the capital, the percentage of people of migrant stock rises to 39%. Vienna like many other European capitals has 150 languages spoken in its schools. At primary school level, one in two pupils is of a migration background, mostly from the Balkans and Turkey. Under the motto, �Integration through achievement�, the question of language was a major theme as schools are frequently the last bastions of community in urban settings. Some Viennese schools in districts like Brigitenau and Ottakring have a migrant intake that is over 80%.  ( source )

Sweden: 'Smarter' immigrants coming Via the Local : Non-European immigrants are arriving in Sweden with increasingly higher levels of education, according to a new study, although fewer highly-educated immigrants are arriving from Europe and the Nordic countries. While only 31 percent of immigrants who arrived in Sweden prior to 1991 had some form of post-secondary education, 44 percent of immigrants who moved to Sweden after 2002 have some form of higher education. The figures come from a comprehensive survey of the level of education of people in Sweden carried out by Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyr�n � SCB).  ( source )