Sweden cancels 2020 university entrance exams for fear of COVID-19 infections


STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Amid a record number of applications to Swedish universities, the country's Council for Higher Education has decided not to offer college entrance exams this fall, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.

After much deliberation and mixed messages from the government and education authorities, and after having consulted college presidents around the country, the Council for Higher Education announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the bi-annual college entrance exams known in English as the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT).

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