The National Swedish Board of Education studied 7,095 pupils (mostly immigrants) with home languages other than Swedish who were in grade 9 of compulsory school in 1978-79. The part of the research reported on here focused on students taking special English or mathematics courses, students taking adjusted courses of studies at workplaces, and both groups' education/work situations a year later. Few differences were found between other home language speakers and Swedish speakers. For example, grade 9 pupils with other home languages took special English or mathematics courses only slightly less extensively than Swedish home language pupils. The greatest differences were found between Swedish home speakers and other home language students with less command of spoken Swedish than the average Swedish pupil. These pupils (13% of ninth graders) took special courses less frequently than others. However, a larger proportion took adjusted courses of studies at the workplace. Amongst both Swedish home speakers and other home language speakers, greater proportions of boys than girls took special and adjusted courses. And Finnish speakers took special courses less often than pupils with other home languages and the corresponding command of Swedish. Finnish speaking boys took technology far more often than other boys, and adjusted courses of studies at the workplace were commoner among Finnish speakers than others. Within the group of other language speakers, large differences existed between different language groups. Eleven appendices include tables showing pupil percentages in various courses by sets of variables, plus the compulstory school follow-up questionnaire used to obrain the data for this report. (KH).