Finland has the best educational system in the world. We are going to see the existing differences with the Spanish educational system:
1) There are hardly any private schools thereby eliminating social differences.
2) There is only one 1% school failure, while in Spain we reach 30%.
3) Compulsory education does not start up to 7 years: They learn to write and read when they reach that age.
4) The teaching profession is highly valued in Finland: The teaching career lasts 5 years (compared to 2 in Spain) and there are thousands of candidates seeking to be a teacher, so only the best are admitted. To access the teaching career, they ask for grades as high as those required in Spain to study medicine.
The Finnish government pays a small salary to the students who will become future teachers to encourage them, about 400 euros per month. Students are carefully chosen.
In Spain, a very high grade is not required to study Teaching and many of the students start the degree because they cannot access to study other careers, such as Law for example, because they do not reach the required average mark. In many cases there is a lack of vocation.
In Finland they have to go through many filters and only the one who wants to arrive and the one who is really prepared.
5) The teachers are very specialized.
6) Finland has a great reading tradition: it is the country with the most books per inhabitant.
7) In Finland there are hardly any repeaters since the support classes work very well.
8) In Finland there is the figure of the assistant. The teacher can have 30 students but when the assistant comes, the class is divided into 15 students and each teacher focuses on their students.
9) They are made surveys among students about what the school environment is like in order to detect possible problems.
10) In Finland all children eat at school since it is free.
11) Of every 100 euros of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) it dedicates 6 to education, one euro more than its community neighbors. Consider the money spent on education as an investment as it creates a much more competitive country.
Taxes are higher but people are more satisfied because they know that their money goes to services for the families: they do not pay for meals or books and economic aid is given to mothers with children under 3 years of age.
Watch videos:
In Spain Teaching has a duration of 3 years, not 2
4, if they are undergraduate studies.