I am aware that the private/state school system distinction is absent in Finland.
The problem in implementing such a regime in the U.K. is starting conditions being unbelievably different.
To change the system would entail the dismantling of private education, which has been in place since mediæval times or even before. (For example there are three private schools still extant founded in the 6th and 7th centuries - most were refounded after the dissolution of the monasteries the under Henry VIII.) And these private schools, despite being selective, are amongst the best in the world... but they only cater to the elite, and they are extremely socially divisive. So they are both centres of excellence, and alas bastions of privilege.
This is partly why educational reform in the U.K. is so fraught.
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Date: 28/12/16 08:19 (UTC)The problem in implementing such a regime in the U.K. is starting conditions being unbelievably different.
To change the system would entail the dismantling of private education, which has been in place since mediæval times or even before. (For example there are three private schools still extant founded in the 6th and 7th centuries - most were refounded after the dissolution of the monasteries the under Henry VIII.) And these private schools, despite being selective, are amongst the best in the world... but they only cater to the elite, and they are extremely socially divisive. So they are both centres of excellence, and alas bastions of privilege.
This is partly why educational reform in the U.K. is so fraught.