Background / Organisation

In Sweden Music teacher training is offered in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Örebro, Piteå and Arvika. All Music teacher training institutions belong to the local or regional university except “Kungliga Musikhögskolan” in Stockholm, which is an independent university college. Since 2001, Music teacher training has been part of general teacher training and every future teacher has a so-called general education area (90 ECTS) in common. The teacher exam is at Bachelor level.

The number of students in one generation of teacher education, with music as a main subject area, is about 250 students. The quota of taught hours for all of the subjects differs a lot between different courses, but is approximately 15-20 hours a week. The normal duration of the programme for teaching at primary and secondary school is 4.5 years.