The Finnish Education System
Finland is renowned throughout the world for its high-quality education. Key words in Finnish education policy are quality, efficiency, equality and internationalisation.
The Finnish education system consists of
- municipally-provided daycare for every child, plus a pre-school year for 6-year-olds
- 9 years of compulsory comprehensive school (ages 7–16)
- further general academic or vocational education
- higher education consisting of two complementary sectors: universities and universities of applied sciences
- lifelong adult education
A nation of high-quality learning
- Finland’s education system was named the best in the world by the education firm Pearson in 2012
- The UN’s Education Index lists Finland among the best education systems in the world
- Finland received top results in all of the OECD’s PISA surveys held between 2000 and 2009
- Finland has a literacy rate of 100%
- 75% of Finns speak a foreign language, 50% speak two or more foreign languages
- 40% of Finns have a degree from a university or a university of applied sciences
