I study at Aalto university, my mom is a teacher and I have thought this stuff a lot.
Dark side of success... What success? Given six million people, who all are smart as hell when 15 year olds, you could assume that there would be at least one university in Finland that would be in the group of 30 best universities in the world. Well, our best is Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto at rank 151.
Switzerland has Universite de geneve at 33 while Sweden has Karolinska Institut at 51
http://www.4icu.org/top200/
I have heard that Finland has quite cheap engineers when compared internationally, but you can hardly speak of very high class upper education.
Teaching in Finland is far from perfect. I think these scores have a lot to do with language. As Finnish is written phonetically, average child knows how to read and write after first grade. It would be more fair to compare Finnish 13 year old with English speaking 15 year old.
I study at Aalto university, my mom is a teacher and I have thought this stuff a lot.
Dark side of success... What success? Given six million people, who all are smart as hell when 15 year olds, you could assume that there would be at least one university in Finland that would be in the group of 30 best universities in the world. Well, our best is Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto at rank 151. Switzerland has Universite de geneve at 33 while Sweden has Karolinska Institut at 51 http://www.4icu.org/top200/
I have heard that Finland has quite cheap engineers when compared internationally, but you can hardly speak of very high class upper education.
Teaching in Finland is far from perfect. I think these scores have a lot to do with language. As Finnish is written phonetically, average child knows how to read and write after first grade. It would be more fair to compare Finnish 13 year old with English speaking 15 year old.