Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (Slovenia) (MIZS)

Priorities of the Ministry

• Adopting legislation on higher education, research activities and sports.
• Increasing funds for higher education and those aimed at improving its competitiveness.
• Promoting free university studies, but under certain conditions.
• Raising the quality of education and improving the achievement of pupils and introducing compulsory learning of two foreign languages in primary school.
• Responding to changes in society and the labour marker; introducing more specific specialisation via vocational training.
• Greater inclusion of children in nurseries and enabling all children to go to primary school near their home.
• Reforming the promotion system and career development for school teachers and nursery staff, professional development of higher-education staff and reducing red tape with regard to managing schools and nurseries and implementing the education process.
• Connecting research and education sectors so as to put education at the centre of Slovenia's development policy.
• Promoting development mechanisms to prevent abuse in sports.