For almost seven years, the National Agency for Education has worked to digitize the national tests. A work that has so far cost almost SEK 700 million.
But now the National Agency for Education is in the handbrake and stops the launch when discovering several security deficiencies. For Södertälje, the stop means that many hours of working hours have been wasted.
-It is all teachers who have learned how the systems work, we have all IT staff who have worked to make sure that it works to log in and with WiFi. So it is quite a lot of time, resources and staff that have been spent on this for the past seven years, says Jenny Stanser, head of primary school in Södertälje municipality.
The students will instead conduct compensation tests on paper – or in the schools’ own test platforms. But even there, Södertälje’s elementary school principal Jenny pans think, that they did not think all the way out.
Hear her criticism in the clip above.