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Private adult education with state-approved programmes
Adult education can be implemented in programmes for primary, vocational, secondary professional, secondary school and post-secondary vocational education.
Adult education is based on the following principles:
- the lifelong quality of education;
- availability of education under equal conditions;
- freedom and autonomy in the selection of the manner, content, form, means and methods of education;
- laicism of adult education, which is performed as a public service;
- professional and ethical responsibility of educators;
- respecting the personality and dignity of every participant and in
- adult education which provides state-approved education, reaching the same standards as in education of young people.
In adult education, participants are provided with individual knowledge and skills, while they can also acquire state-approved education.
Applies for SKD:
- Other education n.e.c. P85.590
Conditions
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Applicants who wish to pursue this activity must register the business activity, and have the appropriate legal status.
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The providers of publicly valid education and training programmes are entered in the register. The register is administered by the ministry competent for education.
For performing education and training, kindergartens and schools must have professional staff with prescribed education, premises and equipment determined by the minister or the chamber that is authorised by the law.
Schools and kindergartens can perform the activity of education after being entered in the register managed by the ministry competent for preschool education or education. A kindergarten or school is entered in the register if the conditions determined for premises and equipment are ensured, if they have valid programme and if they attach the statement that the condition referring to ensuring professional staff with required education will be fulfilled until the start of the activity.
The application for the entry in the register at the ministry competent for preschool education or education is submitted by the management of the kindergarten or school. The application for entry must contain:
- name and company name, head office and identification number of the founder or name and surname, birth date, residence and identification number, if the founder is a natural entity;
- name and head office of the kindergarten or school;
- number and date of the act of incorporation;
- the name of the programme implemented by the kindergarten or school;
- public validity of the programme;
- statement of the managerial authority on ensuring the fulfilment of spatial, staff and equipment conditions of the statement by the management that the condition referring to ensuring professional staff with required education will be fulfilled until the start of the activity.
The management of the kindergarten or school is responsible for the truthfulness of data and statements under criminal and damage liability. If there is doubt on ensuring the conditions, the ministry can request the submission of additional evidence on ensuring the conditions for the implementation of activities in the first year after the registration prior to making the entry in the register.
If special knowledge is required for establishing or assessing a fact and the official person doesn’t have such knowledge, the minister appoints an expert or commission that establishes whether the provider fulfils the prescribed conditions for performing the education activities.
If the provider fulfils the conditions for entry in the register, the minister issues a decision on the entry into the register.
Data changes must also be entered in the register. The provider must send any modification of data entered in the register within 30 days upon their occurrence.
The kindergarten or school is deleted from the register:
- if the publicly valid programme is terminated;
- if a final judgement was issued to prohibit the implementation of the publicly valid programme;
- upon the inspections' proposal, if the school or kindergarten does not act in accordance with the final inspection decision that refers to the provision of conditions necessary for entry in the register;
- if it ceases to exist.
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The name of kindergartens and schools, except kindergartens and schools whose founder is a self-governing ethnic community, must be Slovenian.
Foreign personal names that are part of the name of a kindergarten or school are written in accordance with Slovenian spelling, or with Italian or Hungarian spelling if it involves the name of a kindergarten and school whose founder is a self-governing ethnic community.
In addition to the aforementioned information, the name of a private kindergarten or school must also include a mark that the kindergarten or school is private.
Legal basis
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Schools and kindergartens must have a seal.
The content and shape of seals of private kindergartens and schools are determined in their Articles of Association.
Legal basis
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Education in kindergartens and schools is carried out in Slovenian.
In areas where Slovenians and members of the Italian ethnic community live, and which are defined as ethnically mixed areas, also kindergartens and schools are established where education is carried out in Italian (kindergartens and schools in the language of the ethnic community) pursuant to this Act and a special act.
In areas where Slovenians and members of the Hungarian ethnic community live, and which are defined as ethnically mixed areas, bilingual kindergartens and schools are established where education is carried out in Slovenian and Hungarian (bilingual kindergartens and schools) pursuant to this Act and a special act.
Legal basis
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Private schools use textbooks approved by the competent expert council for compulsory subjects determined by law.
Legal basis
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Schools include libraries. Libraries collect library material, but also carry out professional processing, representation and lending, and IT and documentary work as elements of educational work in schools.
Textbook funds may be established within libraries. Funds for pupils, apprentices and students who cannot pay the contribution for lending textbooks from textbook funds due to their social position are provided by the State.
Legal basis
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Private schools which carry out state-approved programmes of elementary education, elementary music education, secondary vocational and professional education, and grammar schools are entitled to funds from the national budget or a local community budget if they meet the following conditions:
- that music schools with music educational programme carry out lessons in at least three instruments played in the orchestra and has at least 35 students;
- that they have employees or teachers provided in another manner required for the implementation of state-approved programmes in accordance with the law and other regulations.
For the implementation of their programme, private schools are granted 85 per cent of funds allocated for the implementation of the programme in public schools by the State or a local community. Private schools are not entitled to funds for investments, investment maintenance and equipment.
Private schools may participate in competitions for teaching equipment and aids intended for public schools.
Legal basis
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Adult education organisations that carry out state-approved educational programmes and programmes financed, co-financed or subsidies from public funds must present their educational programmes and work organisation in a special publication.
These organisations also keep chronicles of their work.
Legal basis
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Adult education organisations that carry out state-approved educational programmes and programmes financed, co-financed or subsidies from public funds provide education according to annual work plans which contain:
- volume and organisation of education and other work in individual years;
- deadlines for exams;
- work of management and expert bodies;
- cooperation with adult education organisations, schools, associations and societies;
- other tasks.
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Adult education organisations keep the following databases:
- a database of training participants;
- a database of the progress of training participants, issued certificates and other documents.
Records are stored permanently.
Information is collected directly from applicants to which the information refers.
Adult education organisations keep the following documents:
- a record of learning obligations met;
- minutes of exams;
- minutes of examination board sessions;
- public documents.
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Adult education organisations collect, process, store, forward and use information from databases they keep in accordance with the regulations on personal data protection.
Personal information of training participants is collected, processed, stored and used for the needs of education, and forwarded to the competent ministries to carry out tasks determined by law.
Personal information may be used and published for the needs of scientific and research work, and the implementation of statistical analyses in a manner that does not disclose the identity of training participants.
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