Indicator history

For many years a number of reports produced by state bodies, research and non-govermental organisations in Slovenia refer to high rate of school failure and high number of school out-drops of Roma children, both connected with the lack of Slovenian language competence among them (consequently lack of ability to follow the educational process), but also with low expectations, non-attendance of classes, discouraging domestic conditions etc.

Evidence of poorer educational performance for children with migrant background have been mentioned in several studies on the situation with migrant students in elementary and secondary schools in Slovenia. A survey done among schools indicates that the schools see reasons for problems with educational perfomance of children with migrant background in poor knowledge of Slovenian language, in cultural differences, different school system, intolerance in society, and socio-economic status of migrants. At the same time the Strategy for inclusion of children and students with migrant background in the educational system in Slovenia, developed by the Ministry of Education refers also to problems on the side of schools where the amount of additional Slovenian language classes for migrant students,  teaching materials as well as competences of teachers are inadequate.

Sources:

Strategy for education of Roma in Slovenia, Ministry of Education, 2004, http://www.mss.gov.si/si/solstvo/razvoj_solstva/projekti/enake_moznosti/#c842. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Addition to Strategy for education of Roma in Slovenia, Ministry of Education, 2011, http://www.mss.gov.si/fileadmin/mss.gov.si/pageuploads/podrocje/razvoj_solstva/projekti/Strategija_Romi_dopolnitev_2011.pdf. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Amnesty International Report on Education of Roma Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, 2006, http://www.humanrightspoint.si/files/att/roma/Roma%20report%20BiH%20CRO%20SLO%20FINAL.pdf. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Amnesty International Slovenia Report, 2010, Amnesty International Slovenia Report, 2010, http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/slovenia/report-2010. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Albina Necak Luk and Sonja Novak Lukanovic: "Inclusion of Roma Children into Education in Slovenia: The Language Competence and Culture Dimensions", The Open Education Journal, 4/2011, http://benthamscience.com/open/toeduj/articles/V004/SI0130TOEDUJ/164TOEDUJ.pdf. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Strategy for inclusion of children and students with migrant background in the educational system in Slovenia, Ministry of Education, 2007. http://www.mss.gov.si/si/solstvo/razvoj_solstva/projekti/enake_moznosti/#c843. Date of access: 10.1.2012.

Assessment of the situation with inclusion of children and students with migrant background in the educational system in Slovenia, Slovenian Philantrophy-Association for the Promotion of Volunteering, http://www.filantropija.org/library/includes/file.asp?FileId=79. Date of access: 10.1.2012.