New comprehensive education
The key project aims to renew comprehensive education, learning environments and teachers' competence. Digitalisation is to be promoted, Schools on the Move Project expanded and language education increased and diversified.
Acceleration of transition to working life
Higher education institutions will reform their student selection processes in order to decrease the number of gap years after upper secondary education. In the future, higher education institutions will offer education around the year.
Preparation of a national strategy for children
The goal is to generate and conduct broad-based discussion on child and family policy and to make the Finnish society more child and family-friendly. The preparation of the strategy is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Reform of vocational upper secondary education
This reform updates the entire vocational education and training (VET) by 2018. Each student will be offered the possibility to design an individually appropriate path to finishing an entire qualification or a supplementary skill set.
Vision for higher education and research in 2030
In vision work different alternatives and models for improving the Finnish higher education system will be examined and their impacts and feasibility assessed.
Access to art and culture will be facilitated
This key project improves the accessibility of basic art education and children’s culture in the different parts of the country. In addition, the key project aims to improve the accessibility of art and culture, thereby promoting the beneficial effects art has on well-being.
Reform of general upper secondary education
Reform to increase the attraction of general upper secondary education. The reform includes both a reform of the Act on General Upper Secondary Education and a functional reform of general upper secondary studies.
Cooperation between higher education institutions and business life
The goal is to use the resources of science and research in a more efficient and effective way and to promote the growth of Finnish education exports. There is also demand for Finnish education abroad. In order to meet this demand, the opportunities of educational export are promoted in all levels of education.
