Sentences with phrase «as finland»

In a number of European countries, such as Finland and the United Kingdom, these approaches are available and well established within public services.

Specifically, in those countries with the most gender - parity such as Finland and the United States, gender differences in preferences for partner age, appearance, social status, and financial prospects were noticeably smaller than they were in low gender - parity places such as Korea and Turkey.

According to Nokia, the update has begun rolling out in some European countries such as Finland and The Netherlands.

The importance of this matter is emphasized in colder northern regions, such as Finland.

While there are record level snow and temperature being set some place on the planet, other places are setting opposite record high temperatures such as Finland....

The Museum's Artists» Residency Programme, creating access to the processes involved in making art and providing an added layer of experience to that available in the galleries, will host 15 artists from as far afield as Finland, Spain, the USA and Brazil.

Presenting a diverse range of artists from the UK, as well as Finland, Latvia, Norway, Japan, USA, Canada and Australia, the works on show will demonstrate the ways in which the narrative heritage of tapestry is used to engage with political, aesthetic and personal issues that are relevant today.

But recently, younger artists like Yang [Yong] have created something of a southern school, which, in its open examination of modern urban life, has begun to attract attention in places such as Finland and Switzerland.

One - off houses have been completed in coastal locations such as Finland, South Africa, the Turks & Caicos Islands and Cornwall, as well as urban settings including Toronto, Vicenza and throughout central London.

Exhibition artist Reima Nevalainen was recently selected as Finland's Young Artist of the Year 2016.

Sometimes you'll head west toward the coast and other times you might head inland, sometimes even going as far as Finland or maybe even Sweden.

As Finland reaches its milestone 100 years anniversary on December 6, there will be blue - and - white light shows across Finland and elsewhere in the world.

As a result, Nala had fans from as far away as Finland, all of them rooting for her to find a home — but few of them volunteering to provide one.

It wasn't the Nobel, just as Finland wasn't Sweden.

Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to replace GCSEs with tougher exams as he believes pupils in England have been slipping behind high - achieving nations such as Finland and Singapore.

The next set of Pisa global education league tables are published next week, and Wales has been lagging far behind the top performing countries such as Finland.

The Centre Forum also says many primary - school pupils are falling behind the world's leading countries in education such as Finland and Canada.

Creating a community of Seven Steps users, in much the same way as Finland have done with their newly certified teachers, is a great way to draw on the support and experience of others in order to keep up the momentum in your own school.

Countries such as Finland, Singapore, and Canada have begun to build professional capital by focusing on the development of the whole teaching profession rather than on removing the few at the bottom who are incompetent or unethical.

The gap's impact is startling: if the United States had closed it by 1998 and reached the level of the top performers, such as Finland and South Korea, the US GDP could have been $ 1.3 trillion to $ 2.3 trillion higher in 2008.

[13] In contrast are nations such as Finland where broad, rich curriculums with diverse, flexible, and rigorous standards are developed at the school level by teachers and school administrators, and where students perform at the highest levels internationally with little variation between schools.

This allows them to carry out practical science with confidence and knowledge of the underlying principles, something that was strongly underlined in the teachers we met in countries such as Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore.

Countries such as Finland have resisted the GERM an as a result, the education system in Finland is considered to be the best in the world.

States with teacher collective bargaining routinely outperform right - to - work states academically, and teachers are unionized in most of the nations — such as Finland, Canada and France — whose kids kick our kids» butts on international assessments.

Year after year, the organization has found that American high school teachers spend about 73 percent more time on classroom instruction than colleagues in countries such as Finland and Israel.

Many analysts and policymakers have expressed alarm at what they see as lackluster student outcomes in the United States, especially when compared with places such as Finland, Singapore, Shanghai, or right across the border in Canada.

As in countries such as Finland, the success of Canada's education system is due in no small part to the quality of its teaching profession and hence, to a recognition of the importance of continually investing in developing a high quality teaching profession for the benefit of all students.

International analyses frequently show the achievement of American children well below that of nations such as Finland and Singapore.

Skeptics of longer school days point out that high - achieving nations such as Finland, Singapore, and China have chosen not to take this route, opting instead for maximizing learning and collaboration time during the traditional schedule.

At about 8 % annually, it stands at twice the rate of high - achieving nations, such as Finland and Singapore, and has increased from about 5 % in the 1990s.

«The government should look to and learn from the light touch accountability systems of high - performing countries such as Finland and New Zealand which are based on trusting schools and teachers to do the best by their students, rather than the issuing of threats or penalties.»

By contrast, teachers in high - performing countries such as Finland and Singapore spend 15 to 24 hours a week teaching.

We've all been hearing about great educational systems of nations such as Finland and Japan.

In countries that are experiencing the most educational success, such as Finland and Singapore, teacher salaries are about the same or better than the salaries of those in other professions that require similar levels of education and experience.

The pass mark will be pushed higher, with claims it will compare with the highest - performing school systems, such as Finland and Shanghai.

This is an outcome of schools punished by unreliable Ofsted inspections, DfE league tables and politicians fascinated with ideas discovered on their tours to countries such as Finland, China and the US.

Commentators have suggested learning from countries with better PISA results, such as Finland.

Often they look for models in countries that score well on international achievement tests like Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) or Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) such as Finland, Singapore or South Korea.

Countries that we are often compared to, such as Finland and Singapore, do not use high - stakes testing to judge students and teachers.

Other countries, such as Finland, closed their schools of education and moved them to the universities, requiring subject - matter degrees and raising the bar for entry substantially.

What we found was that the top - performing countries, as different from one another as Finland and Shanghai, Canada and Japan, shared a set of principles that underlie their reform strategies with each other, but not with the United States, and the United States is pursuing a set of strategies bases on principles that are not found in the countries that are doing the best job of education their students.

If we are serious about improving our schools, we will take steps to improve our teacher force, as Finland and other nations have done.

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South...

But at 100 percent, our child poverty rate was almost three times as high as Finland's (12.4 percent versus 4.6 percent).

In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea, teachers are recruited from the most qualified graduates, are highly trained, respected and paid well.

And most of them loved the taste, as Finland's recipe contained many ingredients that educators generally like and shunned those they typically find repugnant.

They go to countries at the top of international assessments, such as Finland and Japan.

He finds that replacing the least effective 5 to 8 percent of all teachers with average teachers would bring the U.S. to a level of student achievement equivalent to that of Canada, and replacing the least effective 7 to 12 percent of teachers with those of average effectiveness would «move the United States to the level of the highest - performing countries in the world, such as Finland.»

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.