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iv. education and mental culture.
Secondary School for Girls, Västerås.
It has been explained above, in the section on the boys’ schools, that the
Realskolexamen introduced in connection with the reforms of 1904 carries with
it certain qualifications. Now the promoters of the girls’ schools began to have
misgivings that the secondary schools for girls would sooner or later be obliged to
introduce some kind of equivalent final examination. In order to obviate this,
representatives of the girls’ schools submitted to Government a petition that a
"leaving" certificate (avgångsbetyg) from a girls’ school officially recognized as
substantially equivalent in competence to ’the "Normal School" might be recognized,
without any previous examination, whether written or oral, as equivalent in
qualifying value to a final certificate from that school. For the public service
and for admission to certain higher educational establishments, the qualifying
value of this leaving certificate is superior, as regards women, to that of the
Realskolexamen. In May 1909 the Government for the first time conferred
this qualifying value on the leaving certificate, and granted it for a period of
five years to some thirty secondary schools for girls. Almost all the girls’
secondary schools with eight classes have subsequently obtained the same rights.
This outcome proved to be of very great importance for the future of the
girls’ schools, which were thus enabled to develop freely in the direction most
consonant with their special needs. Only five of the girls’ secondary schools
have secured the right of holding the Realskolexamen.
The school year usually lasts 36 weeks, inclusive of the Easter, Whitsuntide
and other occasional holidays. There are about 4 weeks’ holidays at Christmas,
the rest of the holidays being in the summer.
There are at present about 18 600 scholars in the girls’ secondary schools.
The "term fees" paid by the girls vary in amount. Schools in receipt of State
aid, and some of those in receipt of municipal aid, are required to provide a
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