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Ministry of Education and Sport
Ministrstvo za šolstvo in šport
Street address: Masarykova 16, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Telephone: 386 (0) 1 400 5400
Fax: 386 (0) 1 400 5329
E-mail: gp.mss@gov.si
Website: http://www.mss.gov.si
Contact: Dr Igor Lukšič Minister
Telephone: 386 (0) 1 400 5281
Fax: 386 (0) 1 400 5329
Contact: Alenka Kovšca State Secretary
Telephone: 386 (0) 1 400 5764
Fax: 386 (0) 1 400 5329
Contact: Saša Zabukovec International Cooperation
Telephone: 386 (0) 1 400 5367
E-mail: sasa.zabukovec(at)gov.si
The Ministry of Education and Sport performs tasks relating to education and social protection of children, adolescents and adults in kindergartens, primary schools, school student residence halls, music schools, secondary schools and in institutions and units for adult education; education of members of the Italian, Roma and Hungarian ethnic communities, education of members of the Slovene minority in Italy, Austria and Hungary; supplementary lessons in Slovene language and literature for Slovenes around the world; sports education and recreation; preventive and corrective sports activities, selective and professional sport; formulating systemic and other solutions; designing an IT system for the area of education and sport; establishing personnel records and the education of teacher trainers, adult education and other professionals; and general promotion of the sector.
The programme priorities of the Ministry are developing curricula and quality in kindergartens; implementing the nine-year school programme; achieving internationally-comparable standards of knowledge in primary and secondary schools; fulfilling the Guidance of Children with Special Needs Act; fulfilling the Music Schools Act; continuing the overhaul of vocational and professional education programmes; constructing a system of training and education of professional personnel that will be adapted to the requirements of the EU system; establishing the principles of lifelong learning; educating adults as an incentive to development; ensuring appropriate regulations in the area of sports; interdisciplinary professional assistance; financially supporting inclusion in the education system through scholarships; and improving the spread of international information in the area of sports in Slovenia.
Agencies Commissions Departments and Directorates Directorate of Pre-school and Basic Education
Directorate of Secondary, Higher Vocational and Adult Education
Directorate of Sport |
