New professional degree programmes proven attractive Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council appointed for the next four- year term. According to OECD figures, it is particularly high in Canada, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the United States. EU funding has also been an incentive to launch new projects at universities. Structural fund projects emphasise the positive potential of cultural projects in business operations and local initiative.
Private schools act as a complement to the educational services offered.
In Finland private schools are incorporated into the official educational system, and their teaching is based on the same national curriculum. Furthermore, the new three-year professional degree programme renders the students eligible for polytechnics and universities just as the secondary schools do. This is an important reform which makes vocational training attractive in a new way. Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council appointed for the next four-year term. The Council's tasks include assisting universities and the Ministry of Education in issues related to the evaluation of institutions of higher education, and conducting the evaluation of polytechnics' accreditation applications and establishment projects.