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Tertiary education migrant background population

Code:
B17
Key Area:
Migration & Minority Demographics/Statistics
Strand(s):
Demographics & Economics
06/02/2012 - 23:57
Short Answer

According to official data for the academic year 2008/2009 there are 1969 students at the universities in Slovenia having no citizenship of Slovenia.

 

 

Qualitative Info

The exact number of students with citizenship of other countries, studying at the universities in Slovenia in 2009 was 1969.  It makes 1 ,5 % of total population of university students in Slovenia. Most of the students with no citizenship of Slovenia study at the University of Ljubljana (1215) and 75 % of them have origin in countries established after the break of Yugoslavia (759 in Croatia, 255 in Macedonia, 253 in Bosnia and Herzgovina, 145 in Serbia, etc.).

The number of students at the univeristies in Slovenia with no citizenship of Slovenia have been increasing in past years (according to some data there is in 2012 around 1.350 such students studying at the biggest university - University of Ljubljana). Recently, in January 2012, the scholarship scheme to students studying at the univerisities in Slovenia, having no Slovenian citizenship was abolished by the government and the protests against such policy have been organised by students, professors and other supporters.


Sources:

Statistical data on high education, Ministry of High Education, Science and Technology, July 2010, http://www.mvzt.gov.si/fileadmin/mvzt.gov.si/pageuploads/pdf/visoko_solstvo/statistika_visokega_solstva_07072010.pdf. Date of access: 5.2.2012.

Invitation to students' protests, 17.1.2012.

Number 1969
% of general school population 1.5
Main groups Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia.
Groups affected/interested Migrants
Type (R/D)
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Education
External Url http://www.mvzt.gov.si/fileadmin/mvzt.gov.si/pageuploads/pdf/visoko_solstvo/statistika_visokega_solstva_07072010.pdf
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27/01/2013 - 20:54
Short Answer

According to official data for the academic year 2008/2009 there are 1969 students at the universities in Slovenia having no citizenship of Slovenia.

 

According to data of the University of Ljubljana, the biggest and the oldest university in Slovenia, in the academic year 2011/2012, there we 1.800 students having no citizenship of Slovenia.

 

 

Qualitative Info

The exact number of students with citizenship of other countries, studying at the universities in Slovenia in 2009 was 1969.  It makes 1 ,5 % of total population of university students in Slovenia. Most of the students with no citizenship of Slovenia study at the University of Ljubljana (1215) and 75 % of them have origin in countries established after the break of Yugoslavia (759 in Croatia, 255 in Macedonia, 253 in Bosnia and Herzgovina, 145 in Serbia, etc.).

The number of students at the univeristies in Slovenia with no citizenship of Slovenia have been increasing in past years (according to some data there is in 2012 around 1.350 such students studying at the biggest university - University of Ljubljana). Recently, in January 2012, the scholarship scheme to students studying at the univerisities in Slovenia, having no Slovenian citizenship was abolished by the government and the protests against such policy have been organised by students, professors and other supporters.

According to data of the University of Ljubljana, , in the academic year 2011/2012, there were 1.800 students studying at that university, having no citizenship of Slovenia.


Source:

Number 1969
% of general school population 1.5
Main groups Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia.
Groups affected/interested Migrants
Type (R/D)
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Education
External Url http://www.mvzt.gov.si/fileadmin/mvzt.gov.si/pageuploads/pdf/visoko_solstvo/statistika_visokega_solstva_07072010.pdf
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