Investing in Youth: Finland by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: education/employment/socialissues
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Raising completion rates in upper secondary education

Even though overall completion rates in upper secondary education are quite high in Finland compared with many other OECD countries, one in four vocational students do not obtain their upper secondary degree within two years after expected graduation. A mayor reform of the vocational upper secondary education system in 2018 aims to create a more customer-oriented and competence-based system and to improve efficiency. The funding model will encourage education providers to adopt measures to raise completion rates and reduce school dropout, but there may be additional ways to reach this goal:

Introduce cross-age peer counselling. To reduce the gap between students’ expectations and curriculum, Finland could complement standard school-based and employer-led career guidance by introducing cross-age peer counselling, whereby upper secondary students mentor last-year lower secondary students. Such approach is used in Denmark and the United States.

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