Jag möter studenter som talar om styrdokument med stor vördnad. När jag frågar varför de genomför en aktivitet tittar de undrande på mig och hytter med läroplanen. Ibland önskar jag att de var en smula mindre bokstavstrogna – ungefär som i England!

Headteachers are planning to boycott two new literacy tests for primary school children, throwing the future of the tests into doubt.

Delegates at the National Association of Head Teachers’ conference in Harrogate voted overwhelmingly in favour of refusing to co-operate with a compulsory new test of 11-year-olds’ spelling, grammar and punctuation, set to be introduced next year by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary. In addition, Russell Hobby, the union’s general secretary, warned that heads would also pull the plug on a new reading test for six-year-olds next summer if there was any attempt to publish school-by-school results.

I Sverige litar vi på att staten och politikerna vill oss väl. Det känns bara halvtryggt.