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technical instruction.
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country, and it is supported by the State, county councils, parishes, as well as
from the funds of the teachers’ guilds. The state contributed 7 000 kronor at
1912 for the courses at Uppsala. — The courses are now managed at Uppsala
and Lund by a committee appointed from the university, and in Stockholm by
one formed on private initiative. — The student clubs of Uppsala have given
numerous courses of instruction since 1907 in villages ("hembygdskurser"). Here
too the subject of local lore occupied a leading position.
4. TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION.
Advanced scientific instruction in technical subjects is imparted at the
Royal Technical High School (Tekniska Högskolan) at Stockholm and
in the advanced department of Chalmers’ Polytechnical College (Chalmers
Tekniska Läroanstalt) at Gothenburg.
In the second place come the lower department of the latter institution,
the five Technical Colleges and the Technical School of Eskilstuna.
In the Technical School of Stockholm a particularly varied instruction
and training is giving.
Technical instruction is given, further, in about eighty lower technical
trade-schools in smaller towns.
A) Royal Technical High School. The Royal Technical High School,
which had its origin in a "mechanical school" established in 1798, received
its first statutes on June 8th, 1826.
According to these statutes, the "technological institute", as this establishment
was then called, was to have as its object "the collection and preparation of the
knowledge and information necessary for successfully carrying on sloyd-work, or
what are generally called handicrafts and manufactures". The instruction included
elementary mathematics, physics and chemistry, machine-designing, workshop and
model work, chemical technology and the so-called "private industries", to which
modern languages were added in 1830. The staff of the institute consisted of
a director, two professors, three assistants, three other teachers, a designer,
secretary, and an accountant.
New statutes were sanctioned by the Government on May 8th, 1846, in which
it was laid down that the institute was intended as "an educational establishment
for young men wishing to devote themselves to some industrial profession, for
the proper exercise of which a knowledge of natural science, in particular of
chemistry, mechanics, and technology, is required", and from this date the
Koyal Technical High School counts its existence as a higher technical
educational institution. The period of study was to cover two years, but was extended to
three years in 1851. The State subsidy for the High School, which in 1813
amounted to only 475 riksdaler banco (obsolete coin = 1"B0 kronor),was raised on
various occasions, in particular by the Riksdag of 1856, to 49 500 kronor — in
addition to a building grant amounting to 480 000 kronor — and in 1864 to 55 500
kronor; in 1866 a special grant of 106 000 kronor was made for incorporating with
the High School the Mining School (Bergsskola) at Falun, for which purpose the
Mining Society (Brukssocieteten) also contributed 16 000 kronor in addition to
a maximum amount of 15 000 kronor per year towards the practical training
27—133179. Sweden. I.
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