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Slovak Republic

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Educational System in the Slovak Republic

1) Primary schools:

last 8 or 9 years respectively.

2) Higher and vocational education:

a) Secondary schools

provide pupils with the complete secondary education,
secondary specialised education and
higher professional education.
At the same time, they prepare the students for their occupation and activities in the national economy, administration,
culture, art and other branches of life.
Besides, they prepare students for study at universities.

b) Apprentice schools and secondary vocational schools:

Apprentice schools prepare pupils in 2-year apprentice branches with specially adapted curricula for performance of non-demanding workers trades.
Secondary vocational schools provide the complete secondary vocational education in 2-year and 3-year branches of study completed by a final examination.
The 4-year study provides the complete secondary vocational education completed by a school-leaving examination.
Secondary vocational schools ensure not only theoretical and practical
parts of education but also extra-curricular education.

c) Secondary specialised schools

Secondary specialised schools prepare students particularly for the performance of various special activities mainly for occupations in technical and economic spheres, economy, health, social work, education, art, culture and administration.
These schools prepare also pupils for their study at higher educational institutions. It takes as a rule 4 years to complete the study at secondary specialised schools,
with the exception of hotel academies, where it takes 5 years,
conservatories have 6-year courses of study and conservatories of dance 8-year courses.
The study at secondary school is completed by a school-leaving examination.
A variety of secondary specialised schools exists in the Slovak Republic: technical schools, secondary schools of geodesy,
agriculture, forestry, health care, horticulture, floristry, viniculture, fruit-growing, commercial academies, hotel academies, social and law academies, school of library and information science, teacher training, specialised schools for girls, schools of utility art design, conservatories, conservatories of dance, secondary schools of art and vocational schools.

For further information consult http://www.eurydice.org/
 

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