Happy Finnish: Why Finland is the country to copy

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Finland is the happiest country on earth. What can we learn from this Nordic nation? How is its education, health care and housing systems different to ours? Ros Taylor speaks to Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the University of Oxford and author of Finntopia: What We Can Learn from the World's Happiest Country, to work out what makes it such a well-functioning state. “Finland has ended up doing remarkably well, if you’re trying to show people what is possible and what is different, let’s look there.” “Government ministers in Finland resign upon immediately making the smallest of mistakes, they simply go, no questions asked.” “There aren’t good schools and bad schools, there are just good schools. Teachers have a lot of autonomy.” Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer Jet Gerbertson. Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.2	country in the world and has been for five years and it's often held up as a model to
1:18.8	the rest of the world. But how is Finland run and is there anything we can learn from it?
1:23.9	Danny Dalling is the co-author of Fin Topia.
1:26.7	He's also a professor of human geography at Oxford University.
1:29.8	Welcome back to the bunker, Danny.
1:31.3	Thanks for having me. So the left in Britain has a tendency to hold up the Nordic countries as a bit of an ideal.
1:38.0	It's probably something to do with Borgen.
1:40.0	Places like Denmark and Sweden do have problems we sometimes overlook.
1:44.0	Why did you decide to write about Finland?
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