FINEEC • Finnish Education Evaluation Centre

The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) is an independent agency responsible for the evaluation of education in Finland. FINEEC operates as a separate unit within the Finnish National Agency for Education. It carries out evaluations related to education from early childhood education to higher education. The agency acts independently, and its evaluations are free from a third-party influence.

FINEEC’s activities are guided by the national education evaluation plan, which describes the evaluation activities during a four-year period. FINEEC’s tasks in relation to higher education are to:

• implement evaluations related to the activities of higher education institutions in accordance with the national education evaluation plan;
• support higher education institutions in matters concerning evaluation and quality management;
• develop the evaluation of education; and
• to take care of other tasks that are issued or given to the FINEEC.

The three key evaluation types in higher education are quality audits, thematic evaluations and EUR-ACE engineering programme accreditations.

FINEEC is registered on EQAR.