Secondary school programme for adults

WHAT

Formal education enables the acquisition of publicly recognized education or publicly recognized document. You can enroll in secondary school programmes for adults if you meet the required enrollment criteria. The following secondary school programmes are available:
• Short-term vocational education
• Secondary vocational education
• Upper secondary technical education
• Vocational-technical education
• General upper secondary education – grammar school (gimnazija)
• Matura examination course.
The programme is taught in Slovenian.
Foreign citizens with permanent residence in Slovenia (taxpayers in Slovenia) can enroll in official education programmes for adults under the same conditions as Slovenian citizens.

GOOD TO KNOW

In order to facilitate access to free information on adult education, the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (Andragoški center Republike Slovenije) developed a network of 14 regional consultancy centres for adult education (središča ISIO) where you can obtain information, guidelines and assistance in helping you to decide if you want to participate in various forms and methods of learning and education in order to receive certain qualifications.

http://www.sklad-kadri.si/en/human-resources-development/projects-2007-2013/co-financing-tuition-for-adults/

WHERE

Secondary school programmes for adults are organized by secondary schoold, people’s universities and other educational institutions. More information on adult education is available at the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education – SIAE (Andragoški center Republike Slovenije). More on SIAE (in Slovenian) http://www.acs.si, (in English): http://www.acs.si/index.cgi?lang=4