BRATISLAVA, January 4, (WEBNOVINY) — SDKU-DS‘ Eugen Jurzyca-led Ministry of Education would like to implement several improvements before the early parliamentary elections, which will take place on March 10, 2012. “The main and most important priority is to make available as many as possible digitized and publicly accessible textbooks at the eaktovka.sk website,” informed the Education Ministry’s media policy department. The ministry plans publishing further data on career success of individual universities’ faculties – such as unemployment rate among graduates or incomes of those who found jobs. The meaning of this measure should be improving the graduates’ abilities to find jobs and curb unemployment by informing potential students about which needs of the job market.
One of the department’s main goals is to make the tuition fees public, together with statistics of the number of applicants for the study, opinions of students on the quality of education provided, percentage of students who graduate from individual universities, faculties and fields of study. The ministry would also like to create a digital map of schools, which would enable parents or applicants to search for schools for example near to where they live and then compare them with other schools on the basis of various criteria. Jurzyca also plans to change the system of financing Slovak universities before March in order to pay better for higher quality.
He’d also like to finalize the calls for construction of universities’ science campuses. Jurzyca’s plan also encompasses calls for creating joint study programs with best universities in the world in order to mitigate the differences between number of Slovak students who leave to study abroad and those who come to study to Slovakia. The ministry also plans to publish results of the Top Junior Coach survey on junior athletes’ coaches. One more reform is to be introduced before March: financing of sport, the aim of which should be increasing transparency to sports.
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