Education in Finland – Koulutus Suomessa

Assignment #3: Diversity and Access to Education Finnish Equality in Society and Education  Introduction A large aspect of Finnish culture has always been a dedication to equality and much of this can be seen in the country’s educational policies. And with PISA scores like these, it’s clear that these policies have had a positive effect. […]

Finland has the same number of teachers as New York City but nearly half the amount of students. Finland has about 600,000 students while NYC has close to 1.1 million. Every single teacher in Finland needs to have a master’s degree. That degree is fully subsidized by the state, too. Students in Finland don’t start […]

A new book has attracted much interest in the Washington DC, especially on Capitol Hill, Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn From Educational Change in Finland?. The book arrives after Finland scored first in science and second in reading and math on the standardized test administered by the Program for International Student Assessment. Conducted among industrialized nations every […]

The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had […]