SUPPLEMENT LANGUES
DE LA LISTE DE DIFFUSION DE L'UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT - PARIS 7
FINLANDE
Published: 12 December 2008
According to
Statistics Finland, nearly all completers of the full upper secondary
general school syllabus in 2008 had studied English, and Finnish or
Swedish during their attendance of upper secondary general school.
German had been studied by 29 per cent, French by 18 per cent, Spanish
by 11 per cent and Russian by five per cent of the completers of upper
secondary general school education. The proportions of those having
studied other, more unusual foreign languages remained at four per cent
or below. They also vary considerably between genders in several
languages.
The completers of
upper secondary general school studies had mainly taken English,
Swedish or Finnish as a compulsory language subject. German, French,
Spanish, Russian and other foreign languages had been mainly studied as
an elective language. A total of 31,442 students completed the full
upper secondary general school syllabus in spring 2008.
In spring 2008, 42
per cent of all completers of the full upper secondary general school
syllabus - 33 per cent of female students and 53 per cent of male
students - had taken the long syllabus in mathematics.
Language choices of completers of full upper secondary general school syllabus 2008