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Presentation
of post-secondary vocational
education, higher education
Dr. Lučka Lorber, State Secretary at the Ministry of
Education, Science and Sport
April, 2003
Age
Structure of the education system
in the Republic of Slovenia
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doktorat
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magisterij
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cializacija
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Post-graduate education
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academic
higher education
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professionally
oriented higher
education
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Post-secondary
vocational education
Higher education
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general
secondary
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technical
secondary
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vocational
secondary
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vocational
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Upper secondary education
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10th year
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third cycle
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second cycle
CE
first cycle
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first cycle
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eight-year elementary school
nine-year elementary school
Basic education
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pre-school classes
second age group
second age group
first age group
first age group
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general access
access under certain conditions
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transfer
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Structure of the education system in the
Republic
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Slovenia
(tertiary
education)
secondary
education
The structure
of the education
system in
Slovenia, 2000
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10th year
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first cycle
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eight-year elementary school
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Basic education
pre-school classes
second age group
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academic
higher education
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Higher education
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M - matura course
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Slovenia’s mission
concerning tertiary education
“State universities and state high schools are autonomous”
Constitution of Republic of Slovenia, art. 58
“Freedom of scientific and artistic creativity is guaranteed”
Constitution of Republic of Slovenia, art. 59
“Authorships and copyrights are guaranteed”
Constitution of Republic of Slovenia, art. 60
“Citizens of the Republic of Slovenia have the right to
tertiary education under equal terms”
Higher Education Act, art. 7
The network of vocational
colleges (May, 2003)
Murska Sobota
1
Slovenj Gradec
Maribor
1
Bled
4
1
2
1
Velenje
1
1
Kranj
Celje
2
1
Šentjur
Rogaška Slatina
1
1
1
Statistical regions:
Pomurska
Podravska
Koroška
Ljubljana
Nova Gorica
2 12
1
Brežice
1
Novo mesto
Dutovlje
1
Postojna
Savinjska
Zasavska
Spodnjeposavska
Jugovzhodna
Slovenija
Osrednjeslovenska
Gorenjska
Notranjska
Goriška
Obalno - kraška
3
1
Key to the type of vocational colleges:
Meaning of colours:
Koper
1
1
Public vocational colleges
Vocational colleges with
1
concession of the state
Private vocational colleges
Mening of
numbers:
Meaning of forms:
Seat
Dislocated unit
1 Number of individual vocational
colleges in the area
Higher education institutions
(May, 2003)
Gornja Radgona
Murska Sobota
1
1
1
2
Radenci
1
1
Maribor
Slovenj
Gradec
2
1
Lenart
Ravne na Koroškem
9
2
1
1
Ptuj
1
Velenje
Bled
1
Radovljica
Slovenske
Konjice
1
1
1
1
1
Celje
2
2
1
2
Škofja Loka
1
1
3
1
1
Statistical regions:
Trbovlje
Domžale
1
Pomurska
Podravska
Koroška
1
1
Ljubljana
Nova Gorica
1
1
1
Žalec
Kranj
1
1
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3
1
2
1
2
Krško
2
2
Ajdovščina
Trebnje
Spodnjeposavska
1
1
Savinjska
Zasavska
Jugovzhodna
Slovenija
Osrednjeslovenska
Gorenjska
Notranjska
Goriška
Obalno - kraška
Novo mesto
1
Postojna
1
1
Legenda vrst visokošolskih zavodov:
2
1
Meaning of colours:
Sežana
1
Kočevje
1
1
Izola
Piran
Portorož
1
1
1
Koper
2
1
Črnomelj
1
Meaning of form:
University of Ljubljana 1 Seat
University of Maribor
Dislocated unit
University of Primorska
Meaning of numbers:
Colleges with
Concession of the state 1 Number of universty
members or independent
Independent colleges
colleges
Basic premises underpinning postsecondary vocational and higher education
- Organisation and Financing of Education Act
- Vocational and Technical Education Act
-
Higher Education Act
Professional and Academic Titles Act
Adult Education Act
2002 Higher Education Master Plan
1995 National Research Master Plan
Number of students (enrolled)*
in 2002/03** by institutions
University of Ljubljana:
22 faculties
3 art academies
1 professional college
University of Maribor:
9 faculties
1 professional college
University of Primorska
3 faculties
2 professional colleges
7 free-standing higher education institutions
The network of 37 vocational colleges
* including candidates for graduation
** 2001/02 for specialist, master’s and doctoral studies
59,032
24,182
4,738
2,412
10,025
∑ 100,389
Number of students (enrolled)*
in 2002/03** by programmes
Post-secondary vocational:
Undergraduate:
Specialist:
Master’s:
Doctoral:
* including candidates for graduation
** 2001/02 for specialist, master’s and doctoral studies
10,025
85,204
452
4,492
216
Number of study places
for tertiary education in the 2003/2004 academic
year
Higher education
Post-secondary
vocational education
SLOVENIA - ∑
Full-time
15,343
Part-time
7,516
Total
22,859
Youth
1,780
Adults
4,407
Total
6,187
17,123
11,923
29,046
Graduates in the Republic of
Slovenia in 2002*
University of Ljubljana
University of Maribor
Free-standing higher
education institutions
Vocational colleges
8,846
3,931
568
933
∑ 14,278
* The total of undergraduate, specialist, master’s and doctoral degrees
Study programmes in tertiary
education (2002/03)
• Undergraduate
• professional (53)
• academic (154)
• Postgraduate
• specialist (46)
• master’s (163)
• Ph.D. (128)
• Continuing education programmes
• Post-secondary vocational programmes
207
337
24
19
∑ 587
Vocational colleges in
2001/2002
Students Enrolled in Vocational Colleges in Programs
in the 2001/2002 Academic Year by Percentage:
Commercialist
21%
Municipal
Engineering
1%
Wood
Science
1%
Agriculture
1%
Business Secretary
23%
Postal
Communication
5%
Mining and
Geotechnology
1%
Civil
Engineering
7%
Hotel Management
7%
Electric Power
Energy
Food
Electronics
2%
Science
6%
3%
Tourism
5%
Mechanical
Engineering
12%
Telecommunication
6%
Higher education in the
2000/01 academic year
The percentage of all students enrolled by field of study:
social & buisness
humanistics,
sciences
theology, arts
40%
7%
other
10%
law
5%
natural sciences
teacher training and
2%
education science
10%
technology,
math & computer
architecture, transport
sciences
16%
medicine, helth,
hyigine
7%
3%
Teachers, assistants and
researchers
Teaching staff employed in post-secondary vocational
colleges and in higher education in the 2001/02
academic year
Post-secondary vocational education
(vocational college lecturers, exercise instructors, laborators
assistants, physical education teachers, librarians):
190*
560
Higher education
(full professors, associate professors, assistant professors,
senior lecturer, lecturer, lector, research advisers, senior
researchers, researchers, instructors, assistants, staff with
special titles, librarians)
* Full-time equivalent
3,969* 4,968
Main strategic objectives of
higher education (NPVŠ 2002)
• to increase the percentage of employees holding tertiary education
degrees to 25% by 2005
• 35 students per 1000 inhabitatnts, 50% of the cohort enrolled in
tertiary education
• to increase the number of study places, co-financing of part-time
studies
• to double the number of postgraduate students and graduates
• autonomous university and other higher education institutions,
decentralised higher education network
• to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of under- and
postgraduate studies
• to foster cooperation between universities and higher education
institutions with industry and close environment
• to improve and modernise scholarship schemes and students’
standard of living
• to promote international cooperation of higher education institutions
Research objectives
General objectives (Research Activities Act):
- to widen and deepen scientific findings
- to promote the application of science
- to increase the scope of research
- to educate top experts
Long-term objectives (1995 National Development
Programme):
- to increase the application of knowledge to achieve Slovenia’s
economic, social, cultural and environmental development
- to develop a solid core of researchers (5000 or 0.25% of the
population, of whom at least 3000 full-time employees with the
rank of assistant professors; 10,000 experts or 2% of all
employees to be employed in the development sector)
- long-term provision in all basic scientific disciplines
Basic research objectives
(1995 NDP)
- continuous implementation of the project for the education of top
researchers
- stable funding for the purchase and maintenance of research
equipment and information infrastructure
- improved membership of the resarch sphere in international networks
- integration of the evaluation system at universities and in the science
sector into the demanding international system and the one with open
tenders
- more research activities in public and state sectors
- promotion and increase of the flow of researchers from the academic
sector to user organisations
- increased influence of the research sphere in determining the society’s
development strategy
- state support for users to increase their influence in orienting the
activities of the academic research sphere
- increased total investments in research to 2.5% of GDP, half of which
from public sources
International cooperation
in education
 Bilateral cooperation in education
- Bilateral agreements, programmes and protocols (mobility
scholarships, lectorships, foreign language teaching assistants)
 Regional cooperation in education
- Stability Pact for SE Europe
- Adriatic-Ionic Initiative
- Alps Adriatic Working Community
- CEEPUS mobility scholarships
 Multilateral cooperation in education
- European Union
- Council of Europe
- OECD
- UNESCO
- Francophonic
 Horizontal processes
- Bologna process
- Brugges process
- Future Objectives