Education in Finland 

 

Here are selected materials and information about education in Finland. Please, follow all regular ethical codes when using or refering to these sources of inormation. I will update this page regulraly, so be back!

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Links to institutions and agencies:

Ministry of Education is the central government office for education administration located in Helsinki

National Board of Education is the national expert agency for education

Centre for International Mobility CIMO coordinates issues of international education in the central administration

Institute for Educational Research - PISA is Finnish educational research centre in the University of Jyvaskyla

Education system in Finland is a description of Finnish education system at the National Board of Education site

OAJ is the Trade Union of Education (teachers and school principals) in Finland

SURE-FIRE is the Finnish Association of Principals

Virtual Finland is your window to facts and figures of Finland

Suomi is about information and public services in Finland

Statistics Finland is the state statistical office for official statitics of Finland

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Documents:

Policy development and reform principles of basic and secondary education in Finland since 1968 (Erkki Aho, Kari Pitkanen and Pasi Sahlberg, May 2006, World Bank)

School leadership for systemic improvement in Finland (Andrew Hargreaves, Gabor Halasz and Beatriz Pont, December 2007, OECD)

Raising the bar: How Finlandresponds to the twin challenge of secondary education? (Pasi Sahlberg, Profesorado, 2006) (Also available in Spanish elsewhere on this site)

Equity in Education: Thematic review of Finland (Norton Grubb, Hanna Marit Jahr, Josef Neumuller and Simon Field, November 2005, OECD)

Finnish success in PISA - and some reasons behind it (Jouni Valijarvi, Pirjo Linnakyla, Pekka Kupari, Pasi Reinikainen ja Inga Arffman, 2002, University of Jyvaskyla)

Finnish success in PISA - and some reasons behind it II (Jouni Valijarvi, Pekka Kupari, Pirjo Linnakyla, Pasi Reinikainen, Sari Sulkunen, Jukka Tornroos and Inga Arffman, 2007, University of Jyvaskyla)

Attracting, developing and retaining effective teachers: OECD country report for Finland (OECD, June 2003)

Evaluation of educational guidance and counselling in Finland (Ulla Numminen and Helena Kasurinen, 2003)

Education and science in Finland (Ministry of Education, 2006)

Education and research 2003 - 2008 (Ministry of Education, 2003)

Regional strategy for education and research up to 2013 (Ministry of Education, 2004)

National core curriculum for basic education 2004 (National Board of Education, 2004)

National core curriculum for upper secondary schools 2003 (National Board of Education, 2003)

Basic Education Act 1998 (Government of Finland, 1998)

Basic Education Decree (Government of Finland, 1998)

Immigrant education in Finland (National Board of Education, 2003)

Schulsystem in Finnland (September 2008, in German, auf Deutsch)

Should 'failing' students repeat a grade? Retrospective response from Finland (Välijärvi & Sahlberg, 2008)

Pienissä kouluissa opitaan tehokkaammin (Pasi Sahlberg, Mielipide Helsingin Sanomat 18.10.2008)

Teacher education in Finland (OAJ, 2008)

Teacher education as a future-molding factor (J. Jussila & S. Saari (eds.), 2000)

Attracting effective teachers in Finland  (OECD Country Repoert, 2003)

Finland as a knowledge economy (C. Dahlman, J. Routti & P. Ylä-Anttila, 2005)

Steady Work: How Finland is building a strong teaching and learning system (Linda Darling-Hammond, 2009)

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World media about education in Finland

This government must find a new direction (Andy Hargreaves in The Independent, july 2008)

We need a new age of inspiration and leadership (Andy Hargreaves in Times Educational Supplement, February 2008)

Educators Flocking to Finland (New York Times, April 2004)

Focus on a knowledge economy (Financial Times, Sept 2007)

World-class schools for Iowa? (Des Moines Register, 23 Nov 2008)

Texas school reformers try to learn lessons from Finland (The Dallas News, Feb 8, 2009)

Standardized testing: Who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned? (Vue weekely, March, 2008)

'Finnovations' include education system (Red Deer Advocate, 11 February 2010)

How Finns got it so right? (The Irish Times, May 11, 2010)

Finnish Lessons (Holyrood Magazine, February 2010)

Road to Reform (Holyrood Magazine, June 2010)

Other materials

Five steps for Finland's future (Pirjo Stahle (Ed.), TEKES, 2007)

The long and short of educational change (Andy Hargreaves, Education Canada, 2007)

LATEST

Pisa06 in Finland  (Ministry of Education, 2008)

A short history of educational reform in Finland (Pasi Sahlberg, 2009)

Articles by Pasi

More coming soon ...