Join Yle News‘ ‘All Points North’ podcast for a journey through Finland‘s year in the news.

Finnish school kids used to be some of the highest achievers in the world, but their test scores have deteriorated for years. The government now wants to restrict phones in the classroom to help pupils focus.

Egan Richardson and Zena Iovino presented this episode of All Points North. The sound engineer was Tuomas Vauhkonen

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