Women In Finland Outpace Men In Education

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Finland continues to impress the world on the education front. While their centralized education system is regarded as one of the best in the world, this article reports that women continue to outpace men in education both in Finland and among OECD countries (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). Finland’s numbers are significantly “higher than those (in general) for OECD countries, where the the average number of women with higher education is 38 percent”. This is quite impressive, considering the OECD is comprised of 35 countries. See Article.
Anyone who has the slightest interest in exploring global educational systems is aware of the accolades given to the Finnish educational system. According to www.smithonian.com, “the transformation of the Finns’ education system began some 40 years ago as the key propellent of the country’s economic recovery plan. Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment), a standardardized test given to 15-year olds in =more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world. Three years, they led in math. By 2006, Finlandd was first of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science. In the 2009 PISA scores, the nation came second in science, third in reading, and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Here are the latest PISA test results:[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”7024″][/vc_column][/vc_row]