I lived in Finland for 3 years. Even as an international student, I got a taste of why it's the happiest country in the world. Finland has a reputation for being the happiest country in the world. I ...

University students are sober, dedicated, enterprising, business-minded. Wrong? No, quite right—in Finland. “When news from the outside world seemed to be of mayhem in the universities, we decided to ...

Two local principals recently visited Finland to study its highly ranked schools and found an education system that is, in many ways, headed in the opposite direction of its American counterpart. In ...

In Finland, a long-standing legal tradition known as the “everyman’s right” guarantees the public broad access to the country’s vast, picturesque forests, in most cases regardless of who owns the land ...

A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students on tasks which measure digital literacy in social media and online news. The researchers ...

Jeannie Mayer GS’20 is an elementary school principal, an adjunct professor, a student of the Ed.D. in K-12 Leadership program at Bethel, and a mother of seven children—and she’s known by her ...

A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland on Tuesday morning, killing one and seriously wounding two other students, police said. The suspect was later arrested.

TRAVERSE CITY- Kaspire Lehtinin, or Kassu, as he’s known by his teammates, spent the first 17 years of his life in Finland before coming to Traverse City for a one-year student foreign exchange ...