Nigeria: Adopt Finland's Approach to Learning, School Director Urges Education Managers

11 February 2016

School Director, Children's International School (CIS), Lekki, Mrs. Joke Chukwumah has called on education managers to analyse Finland's education system and see what they can adopt, and adapt to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in the country.

Finland runs an education system with no tuition and with fully subsidised meals served to full-time students. The present Finnish education system consists of daycare programmes (for babies and toddlers) and a one-year "pre-school" (or kindergarten for six-year-olds); a nine-year compulsory basic comprehensive (starting at age seven and ending at the age of fifteen); post-compulsory secondary general academic and vocational education; higher education (university and University of Applied Sciences); and adult (lifelong, continuing) education.

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