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Initial education for teachers and trainers working in adult education and training

Slovakia

9.Teachers and education staff

9.7Initial education for teachers and trainers working in adult education and training

Last update: 9 June 2022
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Qualification requirements

Primary and Secondary teachers qualification requirements are defined by the act on teaching staff and specialists (see Initial Education for Teachers Working in Early Childhood  and School Education). Teaching staff in schools providing adult education (e.g. second chance projects) do not have to take any specific training in teaching adults.

Further information on extending or deepening qualification of teaching staff and specialists is given in detail in chapter Continuing Professional Development for Teachers Working in Early Childhood and School Education.

Academic staff in higher education which provides further education programmes do not have to meet any specific requirements for teaching adults. In general, requirements given in chapter Initial training for Academic Staff in Higher Education apply to them.

Different professional organizations, associations or unions define their own requirements for the competence of teachers working in internal systems of each sector’s education. These are usually governed by separate legal regulations (e.g. Act on Mountain rescue service (SK); Act on Health Care Providers, Health Care Professionals and Professional Associations (SK); etc.).

Neither qualification of teachers nor quality of education at commercial educational institutions on the free education market is legally required to be monitored. 

Accredited further education programmes are usually a specific case. The accreditation process of these programmes (see also Quality Assurance in Adult Education and Vocational Training) also evaluates professional competence and competence of both the educational programme teacher and the guarantor.

Depending on the content focus of an accredited further education programme, teachers have to meet some of the following requirements and demonstrate their teaching competence at the same time:

  • bachelor’s or master’s degree in the field of the educational programme, at least two years’ experience in the area covered by the educational programme,
  • a bachelor’s or master’s degree, at least four years’ experience in the area covered by the educational project,
  • full secondary education with maturita (secondary school leaving examination) in the relevant field of the educational programme, at least two years’ experience in the area covered by the educational project,
  • full secondary education with maturita (secondary school leaving examination), at least five years’ experience in the area covered by the educational project,
  • vocational certificate in the relevant field of the educational programme,  at least five years’ experience in the area covered by the educational project,
  • certificate of partial qualification or certificate of full qualification in the relevant field of the educational programme, at least five years’ experience in the area covered by the educational project.

Teachers prove their professional competence by a relevant certificate of education and employer’s confirmation of the length of professional experience.

Teachers prove their professional competence by a certificate of completion of education focused on development of lecturer competencies or a confirmation of lecturer’s lecturing activity in a given period of time stating its content focus and scope over a minimum of a six months period.

 

Training of adult education specialists

Currently, the following universities and higher education institutions are training specialists in adult education:

 

Legislative references

 

National Council of the Slovak Republic, 2019. Act No. 138/2019 on pedagogical employees and professional employees and on the change and supplement to some acts (Zákon č. 138/2019 Z.z. o pedagogických zamestnancoch a odborných zamestnancoch a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov) (last accessed 21/11/2019).

National Council of the Slovak Republic, 2009. Act No. 568/2009 on lifelong learning and on the change and supplement to some acts as amended by subsequent provisions (Zákon č. 568/2009 Z.z. o celoživotnom vzdelávaní a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov v znení neskorších predpisov) (last accessed 14/05/2019).