Schools report: Tens of thousands of Finnish children at risk of marginalisation
Finland’s system of basic schooling was introduced in the 1970s with the goal of ensuring equality between children of different backgrounds. That goal is now being missed, according to a new report, with tens of thousands of children at risk of marginalisation because they lack the skills necessary to go on to further education or training.
Finnish schools are failing to ensure equal opportunities for Finnish children, according to a new report from Jouni Välijärvi, who heads up the Education research unit at Jyväskylä University.
The as-yet unpublished Oma Linja report is based partly on PISA scores. It paints a grim picture of Finland’s school system, with some 10,000 schoolchildren in each school year at risk of being left without a place in further education or training.
The reason for that is simple: Finland’s schools are failing to teach them reading, writing and arithmetic, and they lack study skills.
"By international standards the situation is relatively good," said Välijärvi. "Our strength is still that the differences between pupils are smaller than elsewhere. But the gap is not nearly as big as it has been in the past." < Read the whole article >
More information
- My Path project (Oma linja) http://omalinja.fi/in-english/
