Interviews with students and staff

Alicia Saroli from Canada always had a dream about studying overseas. She made it come true by choosing to study one semester at the School of Education and Communication, and now she thinks that Swedes are some of the nicest people she's met.

Muhammad Rasyid Bin Abdullah from Singapore had never been to Europe before coming to Sweden to study teacher education at the School of Education and Communication for six months. He thinks the quality of education is good and the teachers are pleasant and approachable.

Javier Hernández Soto studies communication at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. When deciding where to spend his semester as an exchange student, he was attracted to the international environment at Jönköping University.

Megan Simmons took part in the CIRT programme, which allows students who are studying teachers' education to study abroad and learn about education in other countries. She enjoyed everyday life in Jönköping, especially the Swedish coffee break, "fika".

Torbjörn Broddason from the University of Reykjavik in Iceland is one of the guest professors at HLK. He has visited Sweden countless times over the past forty years and thinks it is an idyllic country with highly organized, courteous and reliable people.

Jamie Myers is a guest lecturer from Penn State University in the USA. He is also a part of CIRT, a dual-degree programme between HLK, the University of Chichester and Penn State University that enables teacher students from all three countries to study several semesters abroad.