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Earth Day Resources. Want To Know Where Your Future Path Is Headed? Choose A Door And Find Out. Have you been subjected to the door test yet?

Want To Know Where Your Future Path Is Headed? Choose A Door And Find Out.

The picture test has gone viral. Many children are living in Victorian conditions – it’s an inequality timebomb. LearnEnglish Teens – British Council. Photos de la publication de Chaouki... - Chaouki M'kaddem. What a difference a day makes (music by Moby) 18 Doomed Tourist Attractions To Visit Before They're Lost Forever. 24+ Brilliant New Words We Should Add To A Dictionary. When languages evolve, it's important that scholars and dictionaries keep up.

24+ Brilliant New Words We Should Add To A Dictionary

The internet has spawned a new crop of words for stuff, and while you may not like all of them, some of them are really clever combos that seem like they might actually be useful! Finland's education success. How Teenagers Spend Money — The Atlantic. Ah, life without a mortgage, insurance, or savings.

How Teenagers Spend Money — The Atlantic

One hundred years ago, the typical American family spent half its income on food and clothes. Today, thanks to massive gains in productivity in agriculture and manufacturing, we spend hardly a fifth of our budget clothing and feeding ourselves. But there is one group of Americans that still insists on spending about half its hard-earned cash on eating and buying nice clothes. Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles. German Coast guard trainee. Wishmaster - The Misheard Lyrics. Ten Odd Economic Indicators: Hot Waitresses, Men’s Underwear, Blacked-Out Football Games, and More. Future transport: 10 inventions that will supercharge your journey. 15 English Phrases for the Doctor’s Office. Phrases a doctor might say: “We’ll need to run some tests.”

15 English Phrases for the Doctor’s Office

Tests are used to help diagnose (identify) the health problem. Some common tests are a blood test and a urine test. Capital - The highs and lows of life abroad. Away from the safety net of home, uncertainty is perhaps the one thing that unites all expats.

Capital - The highs and lows of life abroad

HSBC's 2014 Expat Explorer survey revealed that 35% of those interviewed claim a lack of job security is their biggest worry, while a further 30% cite the state of the local economy as the main source of their anxieties. On GPS, a global view of education - CNN Video. OneEurope - Photos du journal. Can You Pronounce This Whole Poem? Apparently, 9 Out Of 10 People Can NOT! Victor Borge: Phonetic punctuation. R.I.P. California (1850-2016): What We’ll Lose And Learn From The World’s First Major Water Collapse. Last week when NASA announced that California is on its death bed and has only 12 months of water left, the news hit like a punch to the gut.

A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change. Using Body Language Can Help Your Public Speaking Skills. “We Finns just like it simple”: Net users can’t get enough of Helsinki Metro map. Finland: land of the Moomins, Santa Claus Village, and exceedingly simple metro lines.

“We Finns just like it simple”: Net users can’t get enough of Helsinki Metro map

Finland's Schools Are Overhauling The Way They Do Things. Here's How. Finland’s education system, often held up as an exemplary model for the rest of the world, is on the verge of making some major changes.

Finland's Schools Are Overhauling The Way They Do Things. Here's How

For years, Finland has led the pack in international test scores, becoming a source of fascination for education policymakers and experts. Now, the country is changing the way it teaches students. Going forward, Finnish schools will be placing less emphasis on individual subjects like math and history, and will instead focus on broader, more interdisciplinary topics. The goal, according to Finnish leaders, is to provide students with the necessary skills for a more technological, global society. Finland schools: Subjects are out and ‘topics’ are in as country reforms its education system - Europe. For years, Finland has been the by-word for a successful education system, perched at the top of international league tables for literacy and numeracy.

Finland schools: Subjects are out and ‘topics’ are in as country reforms its education system - Europe

Only far eastern countries such as Singapore and China outperform the Nordic nation in the influential Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings. Q: What makes Finnish teachers so special? A: It’s not brains. When my niece was finishing school in Finland, more than anything else she wanted to become a primary teacher.

Q: What makes Finnish teachers so special? A: It’s not brains

Despite her genuine interest in teaching she failed to get into a teacher education programme at the University of Helsinki. She was smart and bright, yet she was not deemed qualified. This is not unusual. Finnish universities regularly turn away applicants such as my niece to try again or to study something else. In fact, Finnish primary school teacher education programmes that lead to an advanced, research-based degree are so popular among young Finns that only one in 10 applicants is accepted each year. There are those who think that the tough race to become a teacher in Finland is the key to good teaching and thereby to improving student achievement. Who exactly are those who were chosen to become primary teachers in Finland ahead of my niece? Last spring, 1,650 students took the national written test to compete for those 120 places at the University of Helsinki. Dutch students can live in nursing homes rent-free (as long as they keep the residents company)

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