Best schools are in Finland and the far east
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Finland, where there are no wholly-private schools, beat the top-ranking schools in Hong-Kong, Japan and Korea in maths and science - but the UK was left out of the study after the government failed to deliver the statistics.
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I'm not the kind of guy to toot my own horn, but I believe most of you understand, sympathize and approve of tooting my country's horn. While us Finns have plenty of things to be proud of - Nokia, sauna, and I'm sure there's other stuff - our music is a wide-open door into the dark well of the Finnish psyche, a nation with one of the highest suicide rates in the world and 24 hours of darkness in the winter. With that marketing speech out of the way, behold how hard we rock, how fast and loud we are below the fold.
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Cambridge University is best in the world for science, say experts
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According to the World Economic Forumâs ranking, for the second straight year the most competitive economy is Finlandâs one. Finland hit the top for the quality of its public institutions and the high
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Teenagers in Finland and Alberta rank at or near the top in international tests in math, science and reading, but that's where the similarities end.
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Finland does best in the latest international PISA study of 15-year-olds'  maths, reading and science abilities.
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By Kathryn Torney  Paula Downing, from Royal School Armagh, has joined teachers from 21 countries and 43 US states for the Honeywell Educators programme at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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ROVANIEMI, Finland  - Customer service, story-telling, nature studies and wilderness survival are essential skills for any elf worthy of the name.
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PARIS High school students in Hong Kong, Finland and South Korea do better in mathematics than those in any other country, according to a new international comparison of mathematical skills among 15-year-old students from 40 countries.
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Finland supports Russia's quest for its citizens to have easier access to all European Union countries, Finnish President Tarja Halonen said Tuesday.
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Dec. 14, 2004-- Why are American elementary school students not reaching the same advanced levels of academic achievement as their counterparts in many Asian countries?
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KOLOMNA, Russia - One of the most discordant debates in Russian society is playing out in public schools like those in this city not far from Moscow, where the other day a teacher named Irina Donshina set aside her textbooks, strode before her second-graders, and, as if speaking from a pulpit, posed a simple question:
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Finland is about more than the holy trinity of sauna, Jean Sibelius and Kaurismaki: the country is also rich in science, art and popular music.
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The newest addition to the Google Book Search Project, which aims to index the world&#8217;s books, is Tokyo&#8217;s Keio University and its library of over 120,000 books, all in Japanese. &#8220;The Google project allows us to make our collections visible worldwide, allowing us to contribute to research and education on a global scale. Our university was [...]
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  Its name is Feilding High School, but everyone still knows it as Feilding Ag. There's a reason for that - the school has a farm. Jill Galloway reports. -------------------- It is one of the few schools in New Zealand that still operates a commercial farm.
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Travel: Night skiing in Niseko is the best in the world. The aprÃ¨s in volcanic pools is merely a bonus, says Tom Collinson
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Finland is overhauling its civilian crisis management capabilities by concentrating all training thereof to the national Emergency Services College in Kuopio, eastern Finland.