Qatar-Finland International School graduates the first batch of students for the academic year 2021-2022

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During the ceremony, Mr. Omar Abdulaziz Al-Naama, Assistant Undersecretary for Private Education Affairs at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and Mr. Nikke Keskinen, Director of the School, distributed graduation certificates and prizes to the graduates. The ceremony included many artistic and cultural paragraphs presented by the graduates, which were highly interactive and welcomed by the audience.

During his speech to the graduates, Al-Naama expressed his proud at graduating the first batch of this distinguished school, eight years after its establishment, and praised the Qatari-Finnish partnership for attracting a school that offers an educational system that follows the Finnish curriculum.

He also expressed his pride in what he witnessed, during the graduation ceremony, of students' innovations in various fields, and their achievement within an important stage in their academic life, wishing them success and continuing their university studies with distinction.​

The Qatar-Finland International School opened in 2014 and began with Kindergarten to Grade 5 as part of the “Outstanding Schools" Program in Qatar. The school has experienced steady growth over the past eight years, and now it includes a fully functional secondary school.

This batch of graduates is the first batch of high school graduates from Qatar Finland International School, and it is the first batch of graduates from a Finnish high school outside Finland.

For his part, the school director, Mr. Niki Kiskinen, stressed that the graduates embody the values of perseverance, hard work and cooperation; These are the values that will empower them and their communities in the future, wishing them all the best.

To complete the graduation requirements, students have completed 150 high school credits and have passed the Finnish International Final Examination (F.I.F.E.) in at least six subjects, which is an examination developed and assessed by the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) and based on an international version of the Finnish secondary curriculum. It has been approved by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Qatar and is considered equivalent to the final exam of the governmental secondary schools.

This batch had a 100% success rate at the secondary school certificate stage, and many of the first batch graduates were accepted to study at prestigious international universities.

Source: Ministry of Education