Finnish National Board of Education is the agency responsible for the development of education in Finland. Its administrative sector encompasses pre-school and basic education, upper secondary education, basic vocational training, adult education, and liberal adult education, including folk high schools and adult education centres. It also produces services for polytechnics and universities.

Finnish National Board of Education 

• is responsible for drawing up the national core curricula for basic and general upper secondary education and the framework for vocational qualifications and competence-based qualifications.
• evaluates education. The FNBE evaluates learning results and improves the efficiency of training.
• provides information services. Finnish National Board of Education co-ordinates information networks and services in the education sector, produces indicator data and information for anticipating educational needs, maintains the financing system for the education sector, and publishes training guides.
• produces support services for education. Finnish National Board of Education maintains a student selection register for upper secondary vocational training and education and polytechnics; organises language examinations; organises and funds further studies for teachers and other teaching staff; is responsible for the recognition of foreign qualifications; and develops and sells learning materials.

Finnish National Board of Education also provides instruction. It manages 12 state-owned educational institutions.

The FNBE was founded in 1991 when two of its predecessors were merged, namely the National Board of General Education and the National Board of Vocational Education. A major administrative part of the former Boards was abolished in the reorganisation of central level educational governance in the 1990s.