as the surge in immigrants is not unique to sweden other countries offer examples on building teaching capacity particularly austria germany the netherlands and the united states in the total staffing needs amounted to full timepositions with teachers and educational staff by the national agency for education forecasts additional staff will be needed to accommodate swedish pre primary and secondary school students as well as students in municipal adult education markedly the number of applicants to teacher training programmes across sweden has increased more than since lofven and knutsson io retention can be a challenge especially in the first two years in the profession statistics sweden i however a new study shows that there has not been an increase over time in leaving the profession