Sweden, a nation long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, is set to ban mobile phones in schools starting from the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms.
Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s centre-right coalition government has actively pursued a policy aimed at increasing reading time and reducing screen time, particularly among preschool students, by favouring books and other traditional learning tools.
