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FUTURE LEARNING AS A NATIONAL STRATEGY -
EXPERIENCES IN DEVELOPING EDUCATION
IN FINLAND
Leo Pahkin, Finnish National Board of Education
inland has been independent country since 1917 and it has
been member of European Union since 1995. Nowadays there is
5,3 million people living in our country and density of population
is quite low, only 17 inhabitants per square kilometers. Like in
many countries main part of population is living in towns. inland
is bi-lingual country. We have two official languages innish (92
%) and Swedish (6 %). Both language groups have rights to get
education in their own language. Immigrants rate is 2,3 % and it is
one of the lowest in Nordic countries. 74,6 % of population aged
25 to 64 have completed upper secondary or tertiary education,
33,4 % have university or other tertiary qualification, which is the
highest percentage in EU (2010).
According to the PISA studies, young inns were among the
best performers in assessment of reading, mathematical and scientific
literacy. inland reaches this top excellent performance of reading
skills among girls. The boys also proved to be the best readers in
OECD countries, although in inland the discrepancy between
girls and boys is the largest within the countries participating in
the study. urthermore, as a result of remedial teaching in inland
the number of pupils performing poorly was lower than in other
OECD countries.
Why education is so important to us?
It is essential to understand that there are four other big
reasons for importance of education. irst of all, education is part
of nation building. It has played in big role when national identity
was formed. And it has always been used in various ways in many
different cases by different actors.
Secondly, education promotes confidence for an individual as
a member of a national and world community in a modern society.
Today our kids and big part of adults are communicating through
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