Ep 2: How are countries handling higher education during the pandemic? With Matilda Ernkrans Generation Politics

Welcome back to Generation Politics! Thank you to everyone who voted for the political issues which matter most to them - this week, we'll be taking on one of the most popular chosen topics: how different governments across the world are approaching University students and University policy amid the pandemic.

We zoom in on one government, Sweden - which gained international attention this year over its more voluntarist pandemic approach - and talk to Matilda Ernkrans, Minister for Higher Education and Research.

We discuss whether the country's Covid-19 response was effective in retrospect, how Sweden is protecting graduate prospects in a coronavirus job market, if it is factoring students' mental health into its policymaking - and whether nations like the UK should reconsider tuition fees in a year where the student experience has been so different.

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