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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.

2026

There have been no reforms in this area in 2026.

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.

2026

New regulation of educational inspection

In February 2026, Royal Decree 68/2026 was adopted, regulating educational inspection in Spain and updating the organisation and functioning of this service within the education system.

The aim of the regulation is to strengthen the role of educational inspection in supervision, guidance and support for schools, thereby contributing to improving the quality and equity of the education system.

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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