On Friday, the National Agency for Education and Statistics Sweden presented their proposals on how important information about schools can be made public again, following a request from the government.
However, the proposed solutions are criticized for being cumbersome and for taking too long.
- They are complicated and it takes a long time, but our task has been to look at long-term sustainable solutions and it is very complicated.
It takes a long time, we are well aware of that.
It is much more complicated than those who criticize this think, says Peter Fredriksson, director general, National Agency for Education.
"Secrecy provision"
In the short term, the National Agency for Education is looking at whether they can, for example, collect information that they can publish themselves.
- We have access to some information, but not everything.
We need continued access to the information that only Statistics Sweden has, which deals with socio-economic variables.
But then a secrecy-breaking provision is required in the Secrecy Act, he says.
When will we be able to access the information?
- It has taken time, it does not take two months, it does not take six months, but years to work out these long-term solutions.
In the short term, it depends on what the policy does and how fast they can be if they see that we can temporarily find solutions.
Then I hope we can have the information in the autumn, or in the spring, says Peter Fredriksson.