3. Area : 338,400 km²
Population : 5.3million
Literacy Rate : App.100%
National Language : Swedish& Finnish
Capital : Helsinki
GDP: 6.81%
4. • Education is the responsibility of the Ministry
of Education and Culture.
• Finland's Educational System best in World
• Finland is the top education rank.
• 1st rank of science reading
• 2nd rank of math after Korea.
• The "Free Education" is offered.
5. Pre - school Comprehensi
6 year old ve education
7-16years
Bachelor Matriculation
degree examination
Masters
degree
6.
7. • From the age of six.
• All 6-year-olds have the right to free pre-
primary education.
• Each local authority may decide whether to
provide pre-primary education in schools, at
day-care centers or at some other appropriate
location.
8. • Lower and secondary education called
comprehensive education.
• It is from 7-16 years.
• Provides nine years of compulsory education.
• It is free of charge .
• Pupils having complete nine year comprehensive
school receive the basic education certificate.
9. • Higher education is offered by universities.
• Consists of two parallel sectors:
Universities
Polytechnics
10. • Universities are characterized by scientific
research and the highest education based on
theory.
• Universities may also admit applicants who
have completed Open University studies.
• Universities use different kinds of student
selection criteria.
11. Universities in Finland
Indicators & Statistics 2006:
Students, total :176,599
Women:95,066
Men : 81,533
Foreign students : 4,949
Bachelor’s degrees: 3,814
Master’s degrees: 13,128
Doctorates :1,409
Other Degrees :1,047
Teachers :7,883
Research : 6,333
Other staff: 14,211
12. • Oriented towards working life and base their
operations on the high vocational skill requirements
set by it.
• Student selection to mainly based on school
achievement and work experience and, in many
cases, entrance examinations.
• A three-year vocational upper secondary qualification
gives general eligibility for higher education in both
polytechnics and universities. There are 52 vocational
upper secondary qualifications and 116 study
programmes in them.
14. • All teachers in Finland must have a masters
degree, which is fully subsidized.
• Annually only about 1 in every 10 applicants will
be accepted to study to become a teacher
in Finnish primary schools.
• Candidates in primary teacher education study
three main areas:
(1) the theory of education,
(2) pedagogical content knowledge
(3) subject didactics and practice.
• Teachers are selected from the top 10% of
graduates.
15. • Children’s rights
• Support of the family
• Respect for teachers
• Well-rounded curriculum
16. • Children centered classrooms.
• Focus on scaffolding every child’s individual learning.
• “The objective of basic education is to support
pupils' growth toward humanity and ethical
responsible membership of society, and to provide
them with the knowledge and skills necessary in life.
The instruction shall promote equality in society and
the pupils' abilities to participate in education and to
otherwise develop themselves during their lives” –
Basic Education Act(626/1998)
• Contact with international partners
17. • Education is considered to be one of the fundamental rights
of all citizens.
• The public authorities are obligated to provide for the
educational needs of the Finnish- and Swedish-speaking
population according to the same criteria.
• Both language groups have the right to education in their own
mother tongue.
• The entirely Swedish-speaking Province of Åland has its own
educational legislation.
• A Finnish education policy is to achieve as high a level of
education and competence as possible for the whole
population
• Finnish education policy is to offer all citizens equal
opportunities to receive education, regardless of age,
domicile, financial situation, sex or mother tongue
18. • Students in Finland don’t start school until they’re 7
years old.
• The only mandatory test is taken when students are
16 years old.
• There aren’t any separate classrooms for accelerated
learning or special education. All students are taught
in the same classroom.
• The classroom size of science courses is limited to 16
students. This is so students can do actual in-person
experiments in the lab.
19. • The children are not measured at all for the
first six years of their education.
• They rarely take exams or do homework until
they are well into their teens.
• Teachers are given the same status as doctors
and lawyers.
• All children, clever or not, are taught in the
same classrooms
• There is no merit pay for teachers
• Elementary school students in the U.S. get
about half an hour of recess. Students in
Finland get about 75 minutes.
20. • 30 percent of children receive extra help during
their first nine years of school.
• 66 percent of students go to college.
• 93 percent of Finns graduate from high school.
• 12.43 percent of Finnish high-school students go
to vocational schools.
• The school system is 100% state funded.
• In 2010, 6,600 applicants vied for 660 primary
school training slots.
21. The government determines the general objectives of
education and the division of classroom hours
between different subjects.
The Ministry of Education drafts legislation and
government decisions pertaining to education.
The National Board of Education lays out the concrete
objectives and core contents of instruction in the
different subjects and is responsible for the national
core .
Local authorities (generally municipalities) are
responsible for the practical arrangement of
schooling and for composing the municipal
curriculum based on the national core curriculum.
22. Finland Pakistan Pakistan Finland
100%
6.81%
54.06%
1.8%
Literacy rate GDP
23. Pakistan Finland Pakistan Finland
93.7%
4.65%
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