Contents
Page number
Planning
Monitoring
Introduction
Primary research
Secondary research
Conclusion
Evaluation
Bibliography
Appendices
1. Planning
Issue I hope to investigate
Why are Finland so successful in their education and why are wales not so successful, are computers the reason why Finland are successful
Focus: Wales + ?
Wales and Finland
Reason for choosing
I have an interest in education and computers and Finland will be a good country to compare with.
How much do you already know about the Issue?
I don’t know much about the topic but I want to find out more. I know that Finland have a good education system giving …show more content…
I will answer this by looking at my secondary research Wales’s education is “going downhill” because they are not improving their results and it is getting worse each year. It says that Wales “have received 2 wakes up calls from the Programme of international student assessment”. This tells me that Welsh education needs to improve big time. Also Wales are doing worse than other countries in Maths English and science. In Wales they use the traditional method of direct teaching because the teachers find it easier to get their point across. The education system in Wales is run by the government but where in other countries it is run by trained teachers. It would probably be easier for the education system be run by trained teachers because they know what to improve in schools. But in Wales the government hand out money to schools and they choose what they want to improve. The standards of Welsh education are gradually dropping and there is concern about it. The welsh government claimed that Students in Wales were leaving without the qualifications that they need. So that Welsh Students were lacking qualifications to get them into further education like universities. They have had inspection in schools across Wales and they think that the teachers aren’t getting the best out of their students. This tells me that the government needs to improve the education …show more content…
I have found out that Finland are at the top in the educational rankings. They have the best education in the world. There are multiple reasons why finland are the best in the educational rankings. The first one is the Welfare society. Finland schools aim is to “support every student to get the best out of them” as said by the BBC website. Finland put a high amount of taxes into their education to get the best of it. Another reason for their educational rankings is that they have highly qualified teachers. Finland teachers have high quality education. All teachers in all schools acrosS Finland have to have a masters. As said on the BBC “The Traditional directed style learning is not so typical in Finland”. So that means that Finland have their own style of teaching. Local power helps the Finand education also, they give the teachers freedom and responsbility. The teachers in Finland do not need to “follow a script”. Just like Wales, Finland also have core subjects and they are looking to improve the curricuum by 2015 as states on the