| Department for Higher Education |
Kotnikova 38
1000 Ljubljana
Phone: (++386 1) 478 46 22
Fax: (++386 1) 478 47 24
e-mail: gp.mvzt(at)gov.si To establish strong foundations for the development of the economy and its competitiveness, to establish efficient health care, public administration, education system as well as social and other activities in Slovenia.
To enable individuals to exploit and fully develop their potential.
To introduce study courses providing employability of graduates and high quality of graduates.
In recent decades higher education has undergone considerable changes in terms of organisation and contents. In order to become comparable with other European Union Member States, around 25 % of employees must have a post-secondary vocational, university or postgraduate degree. Considering the present education structure of employees and the retirement process, this will be achieved if annually more than 70,000 students enrol, and at least between 10,000 and 12,000 students graduate and find employment. These must be joined by at least 1,500 postgraduate students – specialists, masters and doctors of science or arts. This means that the present number of students must increase so that at least 50 % from each generation will enrol in tertiary education courses (post-secondary vocational and higher education) and we will have a minimum of 35 students per 1,000 inhabitants.
The performance and effectiveness of undergraduate studies should be improved by suitable investment in personnel, equipment and premises of higher education institutions, and modernisation of their work. In this respect it is of particular importance to encourage the integrity of research and teaching activities, improvement of teaching skills, introduction of new contents and a credit system, distance education and systemic (self-)verification of study work quality.
One of the key strategic goals is also to improve the possibilities for postgraduate studies. It is necessary to provide for systemic co-financing of revised postgraduate study programmes linking disciplines, higher education and research institutions and other institutions, to constitute quality programmes and facilitate participation in international projects. Technology incentives and revitalisation of development units in the economy should be applied to increase the mobility of students, specialists, masters and doctors of science and arts and thus create interdependence between universities, institutes, the enterprise sector and the entire economy.
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