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In the unified Swedish higher education system born with the reforms of 1969,1977 and 1986, power is decentralised to the regions and individual Hogskola (HEIs), including specific subject colleges with full university status.

The « free » HEIs faculties (where students have little supervision and are free to take their exams, up to three times if necessary, when they feel ready) include faculties of arts, social and natural sciences, theology, law and philosophy; the « closed » HEIs faculties, on the other hand, consist of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, economics and agriculture; their courses are more structured and have to be completed within a set period.

Higher education is organised on a points credit system, based on the number of units or points a student acquires each year of their course, on average, 40 points per academic year (see below).

The first degrees of Fil Kand (FK) and Fil Lic (FL) require 120 points and the Kandidatexamen or Licentiatexamen is taken within 2-5 years of the commencement of studies.

The Filosofie Doktorsexam requires a further 4 years of research and study with the successful defence of a thesis and the highest award is that of Filosofie Doktorsgrad.

SMHI currently has no reccurent courses to offer. Short courses are however often organised on request from various groups, often consumers of forecast products.

Over the last few years the nordic meteorological institutes hace cooperated in the development of a course for operational forecasters called NOMEK. This course has been given three times so far and will probably be repeated also in 1998. Apart from Nordic participation this course has been open also to participants from the Baltic states.

The Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University offers a variety of courses at a range of levels from a general introduction to meteorological phenomena to advanced theoretical courses.

The degree courses in Meteorology have a prerequisite of 80 credit points (one credit point represents one week of full time study and 40 credit points a full academic year) in Mathematics and Physics.

The programme leading to a Bachelors degree consists of formal courses in Meteorology representing 50 credit points and a ten week project that is often directly connected to the research activities at the Department. The Masters degree requires a further 10 credit points and 20 weeks of pproject work. The work carried out during the projects is presented both in written form and at formal seminars. The aim of the programmes is to provide a good theoretical basis in Meteorology and atmospheric science. These courses are usually given in Swedish. A 10 credit points course in chemical meteorology is also offered. The prerequisites are 40 credit points in Chemistry and 10 Credit points in Mathematics.

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