Fifth object will no longer be a ticket to university

At yesterday’s meeting, the Government approved the proposal of the Higher Education Act by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Igor Papič In particular, due to changes in the field of financing, he described the reform of the higher education system. At the same time, the government approved the proposal for the amendment of the Matura Act, according to which the professional graduates for enrollment in university studies will have to complete three subjects at the General Matura. The principals are very concerned.

In the third year, the student of the secondary school would decide whether he wanted to pursue a four -time vocational examination, which remains as it is now, or a five -year vocational matura, with three subjects representing maternity, mathematics and foreign language at the general graduation. With a four -highth, one way, as now, I could enroll in higher education and higher education programs. If he wanted to study university, he would have to complete a five -year vocational matura examination, that is, three subjects of general graduation. This is much more than now, when they have to complete the enrollment of one, the so -called fifth subject to enroll in some university study programs.

Preparation for three general graduates will have to provide the schools to which students are enrolled. Minister of Education and Education Vinko Logaj He said that by changing the law, they equate opportunities for candidates of vocational and general graduation. “So far, students have been a fifth subject to enroll in university programs. For him, they had to find school themselves or prepare themselves. At the same time, data show that the success of these students at university education is lower than students who perform general education subjects at the general matura graduation. In the educational process, students should receive a higher level of knowledge for the academic path, which they can choose in their third year. « 

Concern

Headmistress of the Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Media Celje Celje Simona Črep He says he advocates the search for knowledge and not bypasses to study, but points out: « How will schools provide differentiation for, say, 11, 12 students? What if only one student decides at a small school school at a general graduation? In addition, high school math can only be taught by a professor of uniform maths who are not. How will we provide equal options? If they do all these items, why not be recognized by the general matura, why is this still a vocational matura? They also have to do two professional subjects, just as high school students choose two subjects at graduation. « 

Similarly, the Headmistress of the School of Economics, Tourism and Agriculture of the Ptuj ŠC wonders Darja Harb: “How will we provide these watches, if we don’t even know how many students will choose to do so? There is another problem. Let’s say our student will hotel for a university study, where they will also require a general graduation graduation graduation. So will he have to actually perform four general graduates? We answered our concerns at the ministry that we had this system once, which is true. But at the time, the important difference was that the fund of ur general education subjects in high schools and secondary vocational schools was the same. Now this is gone because we have an open curricular in which we provide professional content. « 

In the open curriculum, students of secondary vocational schools receive expertise, which is of interest to the labor market and are not in regular programs. Minister Logaj commented: “If a student decides to study university, which lasts for five years, and we add up the third and fourth year, which means that it will not be on the labor market for seven years. If it decides on a labor market or a post -secondary study program or for a higher education vertical, it has the entire program in existing mode. After analyzing individual parts of the open curriculum, numerous schools for help students have provided preparation for some general educational subjects. So the solution we propose has already been verified in practice and is not about reducing the volume of open curriculum, which is oriented to transition students to the labor market. « 

Logaj added that they would talk about organizational aspects and implementation with the principals at the meeting on Monday. If the law is passed, the first generation of high school graduates under these Terms and Conditions would have completed secondary education in the 2030/31 school year.

Reform

According to Loga, the proposal for the amendment of the Matura Act is aligned with the draft law on higher education. This is a reform of higher education, said Minister Igor Papic. Changes will be in funding especially, funds for higher education would gradually rise up to 1.5 percent of GDP, and contracts would no longer be concluded for four years, but six -year periods, and after three years we would have an audit. According to Papic, raising funds and longer conclusion of contracts allow for more predictable planning to operate higher education institutions and a greater degree of autonomy of universities.

The government would now establish only public universities, but not public independent higher education institutions. The one who already exists – the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto and the College of Rural Management Grm Novo mesto – will join one of the public universities after the law enters into force. The University of Ljubljana will also join the Public Institution Student Center Ljubljana, as public dormitories will be members of public universities, which is already a practice in Maribor and Primorska.

The bill also introduced the so -called time -tailored study instead of the extraordinary study. Papic stressed that this does not mean abolishing extraordinary studies. “Time -tailored study is continued to be part -time study or study at work. The only difference is that the period of study of one year can be extended up to two years. «