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Alternative Futures of Finnish Comprehensive School
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Päivi Nilivaara; Tiina Soini – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Inevitable and constant change is challenging school systems worldwide, and COVID-19 has further intensified the debate on the future. This article examines the possible futures of Finnish comprehensive schools through three scenarios generated by analysing data from a Delphi panel of 30 Finnish experts in the field of education. This study…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Vignettes, Specialists, Delphi Technique
"Pillars of Finland Remarkable Educational System: Is This Model Transferable?"
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Fakhoury, Hayel – College Student Journal, 2022
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list top 1,000 universities in the world which represent only 5% of the 20,000 higher education institutions of the world. Out of these world countries, Finnish youth were the best young readers in the world according to results from the Programme for International Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
The Rise and Fall of the MTL: An Example of European Policy Borrowing
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Chung, Jennifer; Atkin, Chris; Moore, Jane – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The success of Finland in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) highlights the quality of Finnish teacher education underpinning its consistently high performance in the survey. In 2010 the UK government initiated a masters in teaching and learning (MTL) in order to raise the education level of teachers, following Finland's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Preservice Teacher Education, Adoption (Ideas)