These are the countries expats think are the best for education

Every year, InterNations interviews thousands of expats across the globe and asks them to rate their adopted homes on various aspects of family life. The Family Life Index 2016 ranks 45

countries based upon the satisfaction of its expat residents. If you are thinking of moving abroad, the word of those who have gone before you can help make a decision in the best interests

of your family. According to expats, there are 23 better countries in the world than the United Kingdom as far as family life is concerned. The UK’s best subcategory of the index is quality

of education, where we come in at 16th place. In terms of well-being, the UK is in 23rd spot, while only reaching spot 29 on the ease of access for childcare and education. The UK's

worst performance is for the cost of education, with the nation down at 31. So where are expats most happy raising their families? Finland claims the top spot in the overall Family Life

index, after having come second to Austria in 2015. The nation tops three of the four subcategories; Availability of Childcare & Education, Costs of Childcare & Education and Quality

of Education. InterNations reports that 70 per cent of survey respondents rate the quality of education in Finland as “excellent”, compared to an average for the globe of just 21 per cent.

On the Family Well-Being subcategory - the fourth to make up the Family Life Index - Finland comes in fourth, behind Australia, Canada and Japan. While Australia tops the family well-being

sub-index, it comes in at 29th place on the costs of childcare & education league table; only two places above the United Kingdom. The runners-up in each category did not perform as

consistently well across the board as Finland has. While South Africa comes second for availability of education, it comes 16th for educational costs and 34th for both educational quality

and family well-being. Sweden takes the second spot on the Costs of Childcare & Education index and does well on the Availability of Childcare & Education, but scores 29th for

Quality of Education; 13 places below the UK. Singapore’s educational quality is second only to Finland and just makes the top ten for availability and well-being. In terms of the cost of

education and childcare, Singapore unsurprisingly does not rank well - coming 43rd out of the 45 nations covered by the index. The world’s second-best nation for family well-being - Canada -

is bunched down in the early 20s on the other three indices. This shows that Finland is somewhat rare in providing a universally positive experience for its expats across the key areas of

family life. Some level of compromise might therefore be necessary, dependent upon your personal circumstances; money may not be an issue, or you could be planning on home schooling your

children, so access to education is irrelevant.