New vocational gymnasium inaugurated in Norrköping

- I think it's very fun to work practically, which is why I chose this program, says Hanna Zimmerman, who last year at Bråvallagymnasiet.

Her classmate Tove Lundberg agrees, and adds.

- It feels good to be guaranteed a job after school. It feels like a good security.

Principal Jörgen Strömberg has been looking forward to the day when the new high school would be inaugurated and he says there are many benefits to having all programs under the same roof.

- The school becomes like a cluster of skills internally and that one can take part in each other's skills, but also externally for entrepreneurs and the industry to find us and get as much as possible out of a collaboration.

In previous years it has been difficult to fill all the places on the vocational programs at the colleges, but it has not been at the Bråvallagymnasiet.

- There are different explanations for it. One is that the pupils are now bigger, but then it is well known that it leads to jobs, says Jörgen Strömberg.

Also included in the inauguration was Minister of Education Annika Ekström (S) who believes that the vocational programs at the colleges are very important and that a task for the government is to ensure that there are places for the vocational programs throughout the country.

- There must be better regional cooperation between municipalities and independent schools, but then employers must also open up their workplaces for internships and work with the work environment so that young people apply for these jobs.