I gather you're unhappy about the falling demand for a degree in teaching, but the whole argument you're describing is politicised and unsupported. The article

I gather you're unhappy about the falling demand for a degree in teaching, but the whole argument you're describing is politicised and unsupported. The article suggests there's low demand for a degree in teaching; extending that to "academic merits does not matter" is a crazy stretch. This link shows statistics for people accepted into higher education for this fall semester: http://statistik.vhs.se http://statistik.vhs.se Both in the design of the system and in its actual results, it's clear that academic merit matters more than any other factor.