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Looking to Finland for educational excellence
Britain could take a leaf out of Finnish educationalists’ book, says ROBIN HEAD
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
IN the ludicrous world of attempting to measure school versus school, area versus area and nation versus nation in terms of educational standards, the fact that’s lost is that all these things are affected by factors outside of the control of individual teachers themselves.
Comparing such jurisdictions on basic statistics is always problematic because of the diverse cultural factors which might exist, even within the same town or city, let alone from one nation to another.
So when looking at the international Pisa league tables, it is ridiculous to ignore the reasons behind high standards where they have been achieved.
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