Eurydice

Approbation

Competence to teach certain subject subjects at the respective level of education; subject specialisation.

Catchment school (spádová škola) 

A catchment school (spádová škola) is a school in the school catchment area of a pupil’s permanent residence.

Higher education institutions

Acts of the National Council of the Slovak Republic

National Council of the Slovak Republic, 1992. Constitution of the Slovak Republic as amended by subsequent provisions (Ústava Slovenskej republiky v znení neskorších predpisov) (last accessed 06/07/2026).

2026

New higher education Act

In October 2025, the Slovak Parliament approved a new Higher Education Act (Act No. 300/2025 Coll.), which introduces changes giving higher education institutions greater autonomy, increasing their global competitiveness, and enabling them to respond more effectively to the needs of the 21st-century labour market. The new law will enter into force on 1 September 2026. 

2026

Amendment to the Act on Vocational Education and Training 

In October 2025, members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic approved a package of education laws and implemented the most extensive education reform in recent years. The reform package also includes an amendment to the Act on Vocational Education and Training (Act No. 324/2025 Coll.), which introduced the following changes:  

This chapter provides thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy development since 2022. The web pages that follow group reforms in the following broad thematic areas:

Pre-primary and early childhood education and care,

• General school education,
• Vocational education and training,
• Higher education and
• Adult education.
• Reforms are ordered chronologically in each thematic area. The most recent reforms are described first.

Bilateral agreements

European, global and intercultural dimension in curriculum development

Where adult education takes place in schools and leads to achieving a level of education, the topics of internationalisation and global education are included in the curricula to the same extent as with other pupils. Otherwise, the inclusion of these topics into education is in the competence of the educational programme provider.

European, global and intercultural dimension in curriculum development

Higher education institutions are self-governing institutions and the creation of study programmes’ content is fully within their competence. The European dimension of higher education is promoted mainly in the form of common study programmes.

European, global and intercultural dimensions in curriculum development

Issues of internationalisation in state education programmes

Issues of internationalisation are a part of state educational programmes for kindergartens,  1st and 2nd-level of primary schools, and gymnasiums in the educational area Man and Society (Človek a spoločnosť).