Articles

Inside Classrooms: Finland

Finland is consistently high in the PISA rankings and is often seen as a top performing education system. So what are its teachers doing?

Inside Classrooms: Canada

Along with Finland and Shanghai, Canada is a top performing education system that is also relatively equitable. So what are its teachers doing?

Inside Classrooms: Singapore

Singapore is consistently high in the PISA rankings and is often seen as a top performing education system. So what are its teachers doing?

Inside Classrooms: Japan

Japan is consistently high in the PISA rankings and is often seen as a top performing education system. So what are its teachers doing?

Inside Classrooms: New Zealand

Along with Finland and Shanghai, New Zealand is often seen as a top performing education system. So what are its teachers doing?

Education lessons from around the globe

To see why some countries’ students outperform others, I spent time in classrooms around the world. Here is what I learned.

Where’s the best place to teach in the world?

After endless education reforms promising to match ‘top performing’ systems, Lucy Crehan set off to find out for herself what these countries were really doing…

Recruitment lessons: how Japan and Australia attract teachers into rural schools

The National Teaching Service faces an uphill battle to get brilliant educators into unattractive schools – but other countries have made it work.