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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments since 2021.

The introduction of the chapter describes the overall education strategy and the key objectives across the whole education system. It also looks at how the education reform process is organised and who are the main actors in the decision-making process.

The section on ongoing reforms and policy developments groups reforms in the following broad thematic areas that largely correspond to education levels:

Assessment criteria (Criterios de evaluación)

These are defined as the references that indicate the level of student performance in the learning situations or activities to which the specific competences of each area, field or subject refer at a given moment in the learning process.

2025

New Standards of Professional Competences

In June 2025, a Royal Decree (Real Decreto 532/2025) was approved incorporating new profiles linked to emerging sectors into the National Catalogue of Professional Competence Standards and updating the former competence units created in 2003. The regulation entered into force the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette.

2025

Emergency Training Plan in Non-University Educational Centres

In June 2025, a mandatory civil protection emergency training plan was approved for all pupils in non-university educational centres. Its implementation will begin in the 2025/2026 academic year.

The aim is to ensure that students and teaching staff know how to act in risk situations, ranging from floods or earthquakes to fires or technological accidents.

Pupil/Students assessment

The Government, through the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFD), in consultation with the autonomous communities, is responsible for designing the basic aspects of the curriculum in relation to, among others, the assessment criteria for each stage, in order to ensure a common education throughout the national territory.

Key features of the education system

Governance

The education system of the Republic of Slovenia is organised as a public service rendered by public and private institutions that provide officially recognized or accredited programmes.

By law, public schools are secular and the school space is autonomous.

The state acts as founder of public:

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