Advantages and disadvantages of Finnish educational system.
I)
Advantages:
A. Condensed and high quality education: Primal education in Finland last 9 year, begins with joining to school when kids are 7 years old, and they nish school when they are !. "uring the rst ! years of education the students receive the information information of all their subjects by only one teacher, and in their last three years there is a teacher for each subject #each teacher s$eciali%ed in his&her area'. (tudents) schedule schedule starts at *+- or 9+-- am and nishes at +-$m, their $ermanence in schools lasts no longer than / or hours $er day.
B. Equi Equity ty:: 0ne of the most im$ortant laws for Finnish educational system is the following+ 1(chools cannot select their students, they are who decide to join to the closest school to their neighborhood or change to another establishment2 3here is not socio4economical socio4economical discrimination. discrimination. 5. Free education: 3he government government is in charge charge to give basic basic education free for all the students, besides, it is also in charge to $ay and give all the needed material for the schools, lunch, snacks, trans$ortation trans$ortation #from home to school and vice versa', and medical and dental health. 6n the same way there are no restrictions of books or materials nor national lists dened by the authorities. 3eachers are free to teach how they want or think is the best way and ask for books and materials that they think are best for their methods.
D. Motivated teachers of excellence excellence:: 6n Finland only out of as$irants for teachers joins to the niversity for study $edagogy, the reason of this is that if they want to become a teacher they have to accom$lish with a number of re8uirements, tests, abilities and com$etences to become a docent. Also who $ractices $edagogy has to have at least one master #agister'. E. Attention to the students students connected connected !ith a"ount a"ount of the" the" #er classroo"): Another im$ortant $oint inside Finnish education is the attention to the students) needs. A basic value or rue is+ 1:o one is left behind2 that is why in their classrooms are no more than ;students in this way every students) 8uestions or needs are answered in the best $ossible way.
marks in their evaluations, com$etition feelings are no the idea in this system.
II)
Disadvantages:
A. I"#le"entation in other countries+ ; of the most im$ortant $oints that work as a $illar inside the Finnish educational system, are 1trusting in others2 and 1res$ect2 these two as$ects or values are very di=cult to imitate in di>erent countries that are based in di>erent educational systems, where the one who gets the best mark is better student and $erson than the others for e?am$le. @ith that said, to im$lement one educational system that is based in values and organi%ations that are not the same, will not work, for e?am$le, if a country with an educational system based in tests results to e?$ress success, where marks are the core of studying instead of ac8uiring the knowledge for been $re$ared for life, starts to ac8uire an educational system with trust and values and no marks, will not be com$atible. <. Multicultural restrictions: most teachers are ethnic Finns who are not su=ciently educated to teach this new grou$ of culturally diverse students. 6mmigration in Finland is very restricted, the main reasons of this are two $oints+ the rst one is the weather, long and hard winters are not the best scenario for $eo$le. And the second $oint is the language, very few $eo$le #besides Finnish $eo$le' knows how to s$eak their language, this makes communication and co4relation very hard to ac8uire. 3he last census made in Finland demonstrated that from ve million $eo$le, only ;. of them are immigrants, and from that ;., * does not know the language, including that inside schools, students that do not know the language will create a di=cult scenario for the teacher and the class develo$ment.
