Why Finland is scrapping traditional school subjects in favour of topics

Finnish schools to get rid of maths and geography in education shake-up designed to prepare children for the future

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Finland, a country with some of the world's most liberal attitudes to learning, is introducing a radical overhaul of its education system.

It already has one of the most successful schooling systems in the world and is widely regarded as a model for education, but is now planning on scrapping individual subjects in favour of teaching pupils about more general "topics".

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