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If you are a reserve:

QUESTION:

If I have been placed on the reserve list for a sports programme at an NIU programme at a sixth-form college, what should I do when choosing a sixth-form college?

ANSWER:

If you have chosen to retain your place at NIU, you should apply for the programme/school as your first choice. Otherwise, you may be admitted to NIU but have chosen another school and programme where you cannot combine NIU with your studies, in which case you will have to give up sport.There is no coordination between the two, as they are two separate application processes. If you are accepted onto your first-choice programme, all subsequent choices will be withdrawn. This also applies if you are accepted onto your second-choice programme and are placed on the waiting list for your first choice; in that case, your remaining choices below it will be removed. Hopefully, however, you will have received a response regarding NIU before the final application deadline in May and will then have time to change your choices if necessary.

If you are not accepted onto NIU:

QUESTION:

What happens if you’ve listed NIU as your first choice but don’t get a place at NIU?

ANSWER:

As admission to NIU and to upper secondary programmes is handled separately, you can be admitted to the school (the programme and specialisation you applied for) if your academic merit score is high enough, even if you are not admitted to NIU, but it is the upper secondary school admissions team that can provide you with a definitive answer, as they are responsible for handling the administrative aspects of upper secondary school admissions.

NIU without authorisation

QUESTION:

Is it possible to apply for and be accepted onto NIU if, for example, you do not have a grade in English and therefore have to apply for PRIV?

Under the Education Act, an individual programme is intended to prepare pupils for study on a national or specially designed programme and may be geared towards a national or specially designed programme, or a programme-oriented individual programme (PRIV).

ANSWER:

You submit a separate application to NIU and then apply for a sixth-form programme (in other words, you submit two separate applications).

You should apply to NIU early, as the deadline may be as early as October. However, it is not until the beginning of June that you will know whether the pupil is eligible for the upper secondary school’s national programme. We therefore recommend that you submit your application to NIU in good time. Then you’ll find out whether you’ve been accepted onto the ”sports stream”, NIU.

To enrol on national upper secondary programmes, you must meet the entry requirements. Otherwise, you cannot be admitted. In the case of English, you can apply for and be granted an exemption, meaning you may be exempted from the requirement to have a pass mark in English.

The majority of elite athletes did not attend a sports-focused upper secondary school

Attending a sports-focused upper secondary school is not a prerequisite for winning medals. A study shows that most of Sweden’s most successful athletes took a different route to the elite.In most sports, it is possible to combine elite-level training with studies at a sports-focused upper secondary school. Young people who choose RIG (National Sports Sixth Form) or NIU (Nationally Approved Sports Education) are given the opportunity to focus more on their sport and train during the day as well. Some move far from home to try to maximise their development.But anyone whose RIG or NIU application has been rejected need not despair.

Differences between sports

It is true that many of the medallists attended sports-focused secondary schools. However, the study shows that more than half – 54 per cent – did not. The same breakdown applies to those in the very top tier of the world’s elite.The results do not mean that the same applies to all sports and all individuals. In some sports, it may be necessary to attend a sports-focused secondary school in order to succeed. Some sports require specific conditions, such as alpine skiing. Certain training environments may also be more crucial than others.