In recent weeks it was announced that Sweden decided to reverse its plan to digitize schools last June.

The decision was said to have been made last May by Education Minister Lotta Edholm when she indicated that funding from the project would be used to purchase texts in the National School Education Agency’s plan.

The reason to allocate 60 million euros in 2024 and 50 million euros in 2025 to give each student a text per subject was based on a setback in the results of the 2021 PIRLS report that was carried out among fourth-year students . The next evaluation is in 2026.

The students achieved 544 points in reading comprehension and although they are among the top ten in the European Union, there was a drop from the last evaluation.

Héctor Ruiz Martín, director of the International Science Teaching Foundation, agreed The newspaper that the statements were misinterpreted, as Edholm’s decision was to form a group of experts to evaluate the proposal and propose changes to the situation presented.

The minister’s decision aims to “increase the quality of education and the achievement of objectives through the use of digitization opportunities”, according to a review The debate.