Tuition-Free College in New York State

[wufwugy]

I thought we were talking about the schools kids attend, because that is what you posted about.

Would you like to talk about college instead?

[Jack Sawyer]

I thought we were talking about the schools kids attend, because that is what you posted about.

Would you like to talk about college instead?

ALL schools are free in finland wuf, including universities. Also in Norway and Germany btw, but let's not sidetrack. Not just "the schools kids attend".

It's at the core of the thinking that makes that education system great. I thought this was properly explained in this fact-filled vid?

[wufwugy]

ALL schools are free in finland wuf, including universities. Also in Norway and Germany btw, but let's not sidetrack. Not just "the schools kids attend".

It's at the core of the thinking that makes that education system great. I thought this was properly explained in this fact-filled vid?

I'm often wondering why when something falls within the scope of economics, people generally don't care what the field has to say.

[wufwugy]

It's at the core of the thinking that makes that education system great. I thought this was properly explained in this fact-filled vid?

I should respond to this specifically.

In society related things, facts should be taken with a grain of salt. This is because the facts are not rigorous, and the ones that are (if they even exist) are hardly distinguishable from non-rigorous ones.

Allow me to give an example. In college, one of the areas I focused on is the area of economics that appears to have more research conducted on it than any other. And it is an area where the theory is extremely well understood and not really in debate. However, the research is non-conclusive. It's non-conclusive bcause we do not have the statistical methods to properly analyze the simplest empirical questions in the ridiculously complex world that is society.

As you may have noticed, the state of facts is that people find their own facts to fit their own views, and this can happen because there are an uncountable number of facts related to any sociological, economic, etc., phenomenon. This is in part why the strength and heritage of economics is in logic and math, not statistics non-rigorous to the scope in which they are intended to describe.

[Jack Sawyer]

Some marketing speak

Finnish education is known for two things: The education system enjoys world-wide recognition for its excellence and, unlike in many other countries, there are no tuition fees.

In Finland, education is regarded as a fundamental right and the Finnish education policy emphasises equal opportunities for all. Against this background, it is rather easy to understand why there are no tuition fees in Finland, and why free education has been extended to cover citizens of other countries, too. In the university sector, the foundations for and the terms of tuition-free education are laid in the Universities Act (link: http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannok...en20090558.pdf).

All Finnish universities are publicly funded. Despite enjoying large autonomy, the Finnish universities are supervised by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is committed to a high standard of research and education. UEF has passed a quality assurance audit carried out by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council, and adopted an ISO 9001:2000 compliant quality management system. Furthermore, since launching its operations in 2010, the UEF has appeared frequently, indeed annually, in several rankings listing the world's leading universities. In 2015, UEF was ranked among the leading 400 universities in the world by Times Higher Education, among the leading 350 universities in the world by QS World University Rankings, and among the leading 401–500 universities in the world by Academic Ranking of World Universities.

To learn more about education in Finland, please see the website of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland: http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Koulutus/?lang=en

[BananaStand]

Some marketing speak

None of that sounds positive to me