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PRIVATE COLLEGES FOR BOYS. COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. 329
Private Colleges for Boys. Mixed Schools.
In consequence of the small fees demanded in the public schools
(p. 328), private enterprise in higher education has met with
considerable difficulties, and the number of private colleges is still small. At
present there are only 5 private schools for boys entitled to furnish
university entrance certificates, viz.: two in Stockholm (the Beskow
School and the Palmgren coeducational school), two in Uppsala (a
boarding-school for future clergymen, the Fjellstedt School, and the Uppsala
Private College, for both sexes), and one in Lund (the Lund Private
College). The main income of these schools, as well as of various
smaller institutions with fewer classes, consists of the students’ fees.
Yet some of them also receive state grants. Such grants amounted for
1900 to 35,000 kronor.
Aside from the above-named coeducational institutions, which are complete
colleges, there are some twenty other coeducational schools where the
instruction is about the same as in the public five-class colleges. Of these there
are three in Stockholm. The others are found, for the most part, in minor
towns or places of greater iudustrial activity, more important railroad centra, etc.
The mixed schools of Motala and Hedemora may hold final examinations entitling
the boys to enter class VI: i of the public colleges; the mixed school of
Falkenberg may likewise examine for class IV.
Collegiate Schools for Girls.
Collegiate schools for girls are of recent date in Sweden. With the
exception of the Wallin School (Wallinska skolan) in Stockholm and
the Kjellberg School (Kjellbergska skolan) in Gothenburg, which were
founded during the thirties, they all came into existence during the
latter half of the 19th century. Before that time, girls were taught
at home by governesses, or sent to boardingschools. Nothing, however,
having been done for the training of lady-teachers, the instruction
imparted was often very defective. When this condition became more
clearly understood, the Higher Seminary for Lady-Teachers was
established at Stockholm in 1861, for the purpose of training teachers
both for the school and the family, and in 1864 was opened the State
Normal School for Girls, which is connected with the training college
and forms a practising school for its students. With the exception of
these two establishments, all the higher schools for girls in Sweden
are private institutions.
A) The Higher Seminary for Lady-Teachers and the State
Normal School for Girls are governed by a Board nominated by the
Government. This board appoints a head-master and two
assistant-head-mistresses, one for each of the two institutions.
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