Ep 2: How are countries handling higher education during the pandemic? With Matilda Ernkrans

November 27th 2020 - Welcome back to Generation Politics! Thank you to everyone who voted for the political issues which matter most to them - this week, we'll be taking on one of the most popular chosen topics: how different governments across the world are approaching University students and University policy amid the pandemic.

We zoom in on one government, Sweden - which gained international attention this year over its more voluntarist pandemic approach - and talk to Matilda Ernkrans, Minister for Higher Education and Research.

We discuss whether the country's Covid-19 response was effective in retrospect, how Sweden is protecting graduate prospects in a coronavirus job market, if it is factoring students' mental health into its policymaking - and whether nations like the UK should reconsider tuition fees in a year where the student experience has been so different.

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