Eurydice

Teachers in adult education are employed in an institution in accordance with the provisions of the law governing employment relations or achieve cooperation in accordance with the Labour Act.

The institution is obliged to hire at least one teacher full-time for every two educational sectors if it implements education programmes or evaluation programmes for achieving full qualifications at the levels 4.1 and 4.2 of the CROQF.

Planning Policy

The personnel structure, organisation of workplaces and employment policy are within the scope of higher education institutions.

Teachers in public pre-school institutions are public servants. Recruitment of ECEC teachers is carried out in accordance with the Law on Preschool Education.  ECEC teacher candidates apply for open recruitment positions published by pre-school institutions. Candidates are selected by the pre-school institution.

ECEC teachers are educated through undergraduate and graduate university study programmes, according to the concurrent model. The admission requirement for undergraduate ECEC studies is a graduation certificate from a four-year higher secondary school. For graduate studies, access requirements are a completed university-level undergraduate study programme in early and preschool education.

The Croatian educational system is comprised of four levels – pre-school education, basic education (which is also compulsory), secondary education and higher education. Pre-school teachers, primary and secondary school teachers are educated according to educational level i.e. the age of children they work with and teachers in Croatia are highly qualified in their profession (trained at tertiary level) and initial education requires pedagogical education of 60 ECTS.