It is the shape of this new sector, not continued programmatic initiatives from a central government, which accounts for Finland's success. Closer analysis of Finnish education policies and reforms since the 1970s reveals that Finland has employed different solutions to transforming its education system compared with many other OECD countries (Darling-Hammond, 2010, Hargreaves and Shirley, 2009, Sahlberg, 2011). This is sometimes called the Finnish Way of educational reform.