They seem to relish the challenges. Nearly 30 percent of Finland’s children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school. The school where Louhivuori teaches served ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, followed the development of children’s motor skills over a three-year period, from early ...

While the overall vaccination rate for young children in Finland is good, for the past two years health agency THL has observed a decline in kids receiving their second MMR vaccine doses, also known ...

Julian Rodriguez, a Mexican-Spanish national, is one of Helsinki's foreign voters. This election will be his first in Finland ...

These are the 19 countries that InterNations found ranked the highest on the Family Life Index, from South Korea to Finland ... childcare and education, to children’s health and safety.

In 2009 there were 337.000 sport injuries in Finland. Children, youth and especially young men are at high risk. Objective The purpose of the LiVE program is to prevent sports injuries in Finland.

Finland has much to offer in terms of services, quality of life and work-life balance. Finnish society is built on the Nordic welfare state model. It is characterised ...

Across Finland, children's learning results have been slowly eroding in recent years, prompting the government to plan new legislation to ban the use of personal devices, such as phones ...

Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums.