{"id":3944,"date":"2016-08-30T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/finnland\/3944\/finnland-schools-for-the-gifted-and-talented-3\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:59:15","slug":"finnland-schools-for-the-gifted-and-talented-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/finnland\/3944\/finnland-schools-for-the-gifted-and-talented-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnland: Schools for the gifted and talented &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif;\">Finnland: \u201eThe upper secondary level has witnessed an increase in the number of &#8217;special schools&#8216;, focusing on the education of talented youngsters in arts, sports, science and languages. According to Finnish researchers Kirsi Tirri and Elina Kuusisto, &#8218;these special schools can just as well be called schools for the gifted and talented as it is very difficult to be accepted into them&#8216;. Selection is based on the marks of the student, while most places organize their own admission exam as well.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif;\">Univ.-Prof.&nbsp;Dr. Marca Wolfensberger, \u201eTalent Development in European Higher Education\u201c (2015), S.&nbsp;159<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnland: \u201eThe upper secondary level has witnessed an increase in the number of &#8217;special schools&#8216;, focusing on the education of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talk.hansadam.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}