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Statistics Finland 2016, Education at a Glance 2016, City of Helsinki media bank
Underlying educational understanding is based
on equity
Everyone has the right to basic education free of charge. The public authorities shall guarantee for
everyone equal opportunity to receive other educational services in accordance with their ability
and special needs, as well as the opportunity to develop themselves without being prevented by
economic hardship.
(Constitution of Finland)
Education developed in partnership
National
Local authorities Teachers’ union Social partners
authorities
Research Relevant
Parents Pupils and students
institutions stakeholders
No dead-ends in the education system
Licentiate & PhD
Master’s Master’s Work experience
Bachelor’s Bachelor’s
Statistics Finland
Specificities of the Finnish education system
• Supporting internationalisation
Central steering Local decisions
Central Local
General support
Pupil and student welfare
Collective and
individual Health care School meals Safety
approach
School meals
School meals generally consist of typical Finnish foods.
A good school meal consists of
water
Guidance and counselling
• Subjective right
• Part of the curriculum
• Collective and individual
approach
• Develops learning skills
• Supports self-confidence,
participation and personal
growth
• Focus on transition points
Quality assurance is
Self-evaluation
Skills demonstrations
Competence-based
qualifications National evaluations of
learning outcomes
System & thematic
evaluations International
assessments
Evaluation of learning outcomes
function as traffic lights
Photo: Liikuntapäiväkoti
ECEC plans and curriculum
National core
National core
curriculum for Local curricula
curriculum for
pre-primary & plans
ECEC
education
Child’s overall well-being in focus
Integrative education
high-quality education
Maximising Encouragement
Learning
potential: environment
Fairness
child is
unique Joy of
Curiosity
learning
Critical
Responsibility
thinking
Community
Rethinking Thinking and
Cultural
competence,
competences learning to
learn
interaction and
expression
National Goals for
Participation Taking care of
Basic Education and and influence, Development oneself and
Transversal building the as a human others,
Competences sustainable being and as managing daily
future a citizen activities, safety
• knowledge
Competence
• skills for the world
of work, Multiliteracy
• values
entrepreneur-
• attitudes ship
ICT
• will competence
National minimum time allocation
sample of subjects (annual weekly lessons 1)
Sustainable way
Active learner Integrative
of living
teaching
Self-conception and
Learning to learn
• Recognises own way of learning confidence
• Helps setting targets
• Applies this to promote learning
• Receives feedback
General Upper secondary education
aims at
broad-based knowledge
Upper secondary education
Flexible
Personalised
Individualisation
Modular/course structure
Combining general & vocational studies
Eligibility for higher education
Distribution of lesson hours in general upper
secondary education
•
• Minimum 4 tests • One or more optional tests possible
• Mother tongue + 3 of the following: • Biannual
– 2nd national language
– foreign language
– mathematics
– general studies
(one subject in sciences and humanities) Photo: Hanna Anttila
Vocational education
and training:
35%
Performance-based funding
Qualifications and qualification units
50%
Core funding
Student years
15 %
Effectiveness-based funding
Employment and further studies
Learning environments
Drop-out & Youth guarantee, funding
exclusion reform, work-based learning
290
Numeracy OECD
Score mean
average
280
Numeracy Finland
270
HE institutions decide on
• Administration
• Admission
• Content of study programmes
• State funding
Finnish teachers are
trusted professionals
Finnish teachers are supportive
Finnish teachers believe in:
• equity and encouragement
• individual support
• strengthening the pupils’ thinking skills
• developing the pupils’
self-confidence and tolerance
85 % would choose
teaching again
60
50
40
30
20
10
Statistics Finland
Salary is not the
reason to become a
teacher
Average actual monthly salary
in the municipal sector
Differences
Instruction Girls outperform
time low between schools boys
small
McKinsey&Company 2007:
How the world’s best-performing school systems come out on top, p.13