Education

The Republic of Slovenia is a parliamentary democracy implementing the rule of law. It is a social state. The official language is Slovenian. In bilingual areas, that is in municipalities with the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities, Italian and Hungarian, respectively, are also official languages. The State is separated from the Church.

The Slovenian Constitution guarantees free education to Slovenian nationals. Basic education is mandatory and funded from budgetary resources. The State is required to enable its citizens to obtain appropriate education. State universities and professional colleges are autonomous. Members of ethnic minorities have the right to receive and further instruction in their mother tongue. Roma are likewise granted special educational rights.

Slovenia has signed over 30 bilateral agreements on co-operation in education, culture and science, more than 20 programmes and some protocols. Since 1992, Slovenia has actively participated in all educational projects of the Council of Europe and has been involved in the work of the Unesco. Since 1999, it has taken part in the European Union programmes of Socrates, Leonardo and Youth. Since 2002, the Ministry of Education and Sport has co-operated also with the OECD.

In recent years, approximately 6% of GDP have been spent on education.

In 2002, 67% of population had at least upper secondary education.



Economy

Slovenia today is a developed country that enjoys prosperity and stability, as well as a GDP per capita substantially higher than that of the other transitioning economies of Central Europe.



Climate

Average temperature, rainfall and snowfall information is available for the following climate stations in Slovenia



List of Universities in SLOVENIA

• Institut Jozef Stefan

• University of Ljubljana

• University of Maribor