SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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Name Slovenská republika, Slovensko, Slovak
Republic, Slovakia, Slovaquie , Slowakei ,
Slovacchia, EslovaquiaLocation Central Europe
Population 5 430 000 inhabitants Area 48 800
km2 Capital Bratislava Currency SKK (Slovak
koruna) (139 SKK)
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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Short Historical Overview
• In 1918 the Slovaks joined the closely related
  Czechs to form Czechoslovakia
• Following the chaos of World War II,
  Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within
  Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe
• Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and
  Czechoslovakia once more became free
• The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate
  peacefully on 1 January 1993
• Slovakia joined both NATO and the EU in the
  spring of 2004.

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Pre-school education
• nursery schools
• for kids from 3 to 6 years of
• age

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Primary education
• 10 years of compulsory school attendance
• 2 stages of primary school 1st stage from 1 to 4
  grade, 2nd stage from 5 to 9 grade

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Secondary education
• School types
• gymnasium
• bussines college
• construction college
• vocation sch.

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Higher education
• state universities
• private institutions
• 1st level Bachelors study
• 2nd level Magisters, Engineers, Doctors study
• 3rd level Ph.D. study

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Compulsory education
• takes 10 years
• starts at the age of 6 years
• postpones, if the child is not physically or
  mentally developed
• zero grade for children from socially
  disadvantaged surroundings
• integration of children with special needs to
  normal classes

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Administration
• by the year 1990 the school administration had
  been executed at the central level
• new acts of law gives primary and secondary
  schools more autonomy
• a way for pluralistic system has been established
• these acts solved the position of self-governing
  bodies in education

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Vision
• an independent, reach, successful, full of joy
  school
• a regural transnational collaboration within EU
  countries

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SLOVAK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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