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commercial legislation.
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of the Society. Its existence was assured — as far as finances go — in 1829 by a
yearly grant of 2 000 Rdr. bco. (= 3 000 kronor) from the town. At first about
30 pupils were instructed at the Institute, which number diminished considerably
in the forties, but soon rose again to about 40. On the model of the
Gothenburg Commercial Institute was founded, in 1865, the Stockholm Merchant
Society’s commercial school, Frans Schartau s Practical Commercial Institute, named
after the man who, by his energetic intervention, effectually contributed towards
mitigating the consequences of the commercial crisis of 1857. But a really
marked advance in commercial education had to wait till the early nineties,
when the institutes first received Government grants. In 1893 the Riksdag
voted a grant of 15 000 kronor for the year 1894 to the two existing
commercial institutes. The grant was renewed in the years immediately following, at
the same figure, but was increased in 1898 to 20 000 kronor, and in 1902 to 28 000
kronor. With the support of the communal authorities, new commercial
institutes were founded (1904) in Malmö and Hälsingborg. The Malmö institute
participated in 1908 in the government grant, which was raised in that year to
38 000 kronor, and in the year following to 42 000 kronor. The same support
was granted in 1912 by the Riksdag to the Hälsingborg institute.
The Government appointed a Committee in 1908 to investigate, and make
suggestions for systematizing, the commercial education of the country. However,
the report of this committee (1910) gave the Government no inducement to
propose any general organizing of commercial education; but in 1913 the
Riksdag agreed in the main to the Government’s proposal to raise the grant to the
higher commercial institutes, which were to be known in future as "commercial
gymnasiums1". The regular estimates included a grant of 85 000 kr. to the
commercial gymnasiums in Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Malmö. In 1914 the
Riksdag decided upon the establishment of two new commercial gymnasiums, in
Örebro and Norrköping, and at the same time raised the ordinary grant to 115 000
kronor. The Hälsingborg Commercial Gymnasium received an extra-ordinary
grant of 10 000 kronor per annum.
In 1909 was opened, in Stockholm, the first High School of Commerce
(Commercial University) in Sweden, about which more information is given below.
A. Higher Commercial Education. The Riksdag having made
considerably increased grants to higher commercial education in 1913, the
Government issued a communication on November 28th of that year, which
stipulated the conditions on which these grants may be enjoyed. But in all
essentials the various School Boards have retained their old functions.
The most important change is the reduction of the fees to 150 kronor per
annum for pupils in the two^ears’ course.
The instruction is afforded by the five State-supported commercial gymna
siums, mentioned above, in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmö, Hälsingborg, and Öre
bro, together with the Gävle Borgarskola, which was accorded equal rank with
the other institutions. The commercial gymnasium in Norrköping has not yet
begun operations.
The organization of these institutions is similar.
The course takes two years to complete. At the commercial institutes in
Gothenburg and Stockholm there is also a one-year’s course.
To gain entrance to the two-years’ course at the State-aided schools, applicants
must, as a rule, have attained a standard of knowledge equal to that of the
1 A »commercial gymnasium» is a higher commercial school.
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