News

• 5.4.2018

  Finnish teachers’ competences not standardised nor evaluated externally

  Finland is one of the nine countries where teachers’ knowledge and skills are not defined in a national competence framework. Finnish teachers are also exceptional in that they are very rarely evaluated externally. Only one fifth have been evaluated by others than their school head or colleagues.

• 9.3.2018

  Drop-out from general upper secondary education very low in Finland

  Drop-out from general upper secondary education in Finland is very low. In 2015 only 2 per cent of the students interrupted their studies. Drop-out is more common among students whose mother tongue is not Finnish or Swedish, 6.5 per cent. The trend is, however, positive. In 2009 the drop-out rate was 9 per cent.

• 7.3.2018

  Major milestone for educational collaboration between Finland and China – First students receive Finnish vocational education qualification certificates in Shanghai

  Educational collaboration between Finland and China has reached a major milestone: 22 upper secondary vocational students from Shanghai Commercial Accounting School received a Finnish vocational education certificate after completing a study module in Marketing Communications. Director General for Finnish National Agency for Education, Mr Olli-Pekka Heinonen, awarded certificates to the students during his official visit to China.

• 2.3.2018

  Director General Heinonen visits China to discuss educational cooperation and business

  Mr Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General for Finnish National Agency for Education, will visit Shanghai and Hong Kong with a Team Finland business delegation March 5–9, 2018. During the visit, the delegation will meet with both private and public sector organisations.

• 1.2.2018

  Statistics of the month: Age structure and educational level of the population

  In 2016, 71.4 per cent of the Finnish population aged 15 or over had a post-comprehensive qualification. Vocational upper secondary qualifications constituted the largest number of qualifications.