A comparative study of compulsory education policy enactment factors in county areas — A Case Study of China’s “Teacher Rotation System” and Finland’s “Non-differentiated Funding Mechanism”

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Issue		SHS Web Conf. Volume 222, 2025 2025 3^rd International Conference on Education, Psychology and Cultural Communication (ICEPCC 2025)


Article Number		04017
Number of page(s)		9
Section		Educational Policy, Pedagogy, and Teacher Development
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202522204017
Published online		17 September 2025

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