Current affairs

In the European Parliament election, Finland’s Centre Party got off easy and the left got a beating, writes Kyösti Karvonen, managing editor of the newspaper Kaleva.

The knowledge and skills of Finnish students in science, mathematics and reading are of the highest order. In science and mathematics they are rated best in the OECD countries and in reading the second best. The main focus in PISA 2006 was science literacy.