Education: Top Ten Best Educational System Nations

Pearson recently launched their global report on schooling (which we additionally looked at final 12 months). This report takes a take a look at main factors in schooling, resembling expenditure per student, GDP, graduation charges, etc. South Korea topped the rankings again this year, but Finland - well-known for its excellence in education - fell to 5th place.

Take a gander at the graphic under (from the report abstract) to see the place each nation falls in the rankings. If you want to toy round with the statistics and see what elements are influencing each nation in every area, you can take a few minutes to mess around with the interactive graphic of cognitive abilities and educational attainment.

Some of the key findings of the report are as follows:

East Asian nations continue to outperform others. South Korea tops the rankings, followed by Japan (2nd), Singapore (3rd) and Hong Kong (4th). All these countries’ education systems prize effort above inherited ‘smartness’, have clear learning outcomes and goalposts, and have a strong culture of accountability and engagement among a broad community of stakeholders.
Scandinavian countries, traditionally strong performers, are showing signs of losing their edge. Finland, the 2012 Index leader, has fallen to 5th place; and Sweden is down from 21st to 24th.
Notable improvements include Israel (up 12 places to 17th), Russia (up 7 places to 13th) and Poland (up four places to 10th).
Developing countries populate the lower half of the Index, with Indonesia again ranking last of the 40 nations covered, preceded by Mexico (39th) and Brazil (38th).