Good News! Delhi's Lt. Governor gives approval for teachers to go to Finland for Training!

After a long wait of 5 months VK Saxena, Delhi's Lt. Governor, has finally approved teachers in Delhi Government's Primary Schools to go to Finland for Training. This is a great show of parties with different ideologies collaborating to help build capacity.

Saxena has also improved the number of in charges of this program from 59 to 87 to make sure that teachers from each of the 29 administrative zones of the Department of Education have equal representation in this program. The Lt Governor also talked about the need to develop such programs in India as they would then be more accessible to a larger number of teachers. According to Saxena, this would help maximize the benefits of such programs in the country.

Delhi's Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal was insistent on sending these teachers to Finland because Finland's education system is said to be one of the best in the world. In the past, he had talked about the importance of learning from the best. Finland's education system is very different from the Indian Education Model. In the Finnish model, teachers are recruited through a very selective process and there is a larger focus on holistic learning. I have attached a factsheet below which highlights the differences between the Finnish and Indian Education systems.