Finland's education system
Finland's education system The education system in Finland consists of daycare programmes (for babies and toddlers), a one-year "pre-school" (age six), a 11-year compulsory basic comprehensive school (age seven to age eighteen), Nowadays secondary general academic and vocational education, higher education and adult education are compulsory During their nine years of common basic education, students are not selected, tracked, or streamed. There is also inclusive special education within the classroom and instructional efforts to minimize low achievement. After basic education, students must choose to continue with secondary education in either an academic track (lukio) or a vocational track (ammattioppilaitos), both of which usually take three years and give a qualification to continue to tertiary education. Tertiary education is divided into university and polytechnic (ammattikorkeakoulu, also known as "university of applied sciences") systems. Universit...