"Finns det en högskola i staden?"
Translation:Is there a college in the city?
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No, högskola teaches the same level as university. Only institutions of education with a sufficient degree of own research may however be styled universities. I'm not sure as to what tertiary education means, but after brushing through its wikipedia article, I'd say maybe. Högskola/universitet refers to tertiary or higher education.
Swedish school is divided into grundskola years 1-9, gymnasium years 10-12 and then högskola/universitet from then on.
Um, no. What I wrote is how the Swedish school is organised. Grundskola years 1-9, Gymnasium years 10-12. Thus secondary education falls within the end on grundskola and through all of gymnasium.
Wikipedia has a diagram structuring it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Sweden#Diagram
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They are completely different because högskolor/universitet give academic education. Folkhögskola (folk high school) offer many types of shorter or longer courses for your personal development in different fields, eg. theoretical, vocational, arts studies.
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This one is confusing, because it's literally high school, but not with the same meaning as in English. Middag was a similar word too.
Former exchange student here, there seems to be a bit of confusion here, but a högskola is similar to a community college or vocational school, and a folkhögskola is for vocation, arts, etc. And these days also offer alot of courses and programs for swedish culture and language for immigrants and new residents. For example, I went to a wonderful language camp at a place called Ädelförs Folkshögskola which also seemed to offer things like elder care. So its almost like a combination college and community center, at least in this instance.
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You seem to use "STAD / STADEN" with the translation CITY. If you wish to differentiate between town and city in Swedish how do you do it? They are different in English
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What about KTH (the Royal Techical University)? The name is Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, and it gives the highest education in its field in Sweden. In my opinion "university" should be accepted as an answer!