Text file: 1960.txt
author: "radko hriber\u0161ek"
downvotes: 11
end consideration date: 2011-08-06
id: '1960'
number comments: 36
number views: 11142
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport\nA\
  \ working group has been set up at the Ministry responsible for education to prepare\
  \ amendments to the Baccalaureate Act.\nThe current Law was adopted in 2003, after\
  \ the introduction of the Vocational Baccalaureate, in order to regulate the procedures\
  \ and delivery of the General Baccalaureate and the Vocational Baccalaureate in\
  \ a uniform manner. Over the years of the Law's validity, the Baccalaureate rules\
  \ have been refined and supplemented. The end of the courses has not kept pace with\
  \ the changes in the secondary education system. Since 1990, the proportion of upper\
  \ secondary school leavers has doubled, while the proportion of vocational enrolments\
  \ has halved. The data show that most candidates from vocational upper secondary\
  \ education go on to further vocational studies, but many also go on to university\
  \ studies, which require them to take an additional general baccalaureate examination.\
  \ They have to apply for this examination themselves. Approximately 15-20% of candidates\
  \ do not take or do not pass the General or Vocational Baccalaureate at the beginning,\
  \ which means that they are left without a relevant qualification or vocational\
  \ qualification. The General Baccalaureate provides qualifications for further university\
  \ studies, so it makes sense to make it more demanding accordingly. The matriculation\
  \ authorities have in the past recognised the need to streamline and simplify the\
  \ matriculation procedures.\nThe changes are intended to enable candidates (after\
  \ completing upper secondary or secondary vocational education, the baccalaureate\
  \ course, the vocational course, the master's examination) to choose a suitably\
  \ demanding end to their education, in line with their abilities and aspirations;\
  \ to raise the profile of secondary vocational education; and to facilitate the\
  \ transition within the system to study at tertiary level; to introduce the inclusion\
  \ of transitions to tertiary education in the curricula, thus eliminating the problem\
  \ of the additional sitting of a single general baccalaureate examination (the so-called\
  \ fifth subject) for students who are completing secondary vocational education\
  \ and wish to continue their studies in university courses in the same fields of\
  \ study; to add a two-part baccalaureate rule for musicians and Adventists; to add\
  \ provisions on the infringement of the baccalaureate rules; and to allow for the\
  \ completion of secondary vocational education in two different ways: by passing\
  \ the Baccalaureate final examination or by passing the Baccalaureate in a vocational\
  \ field.\n The amendments to the law are still being prepared and coordinated within\
  \ the working group, and it is planned that the proposal for improvements to the\
  \ Baccalaureate will be submitted for public consultation in February or early March\
  \ 2013.\n "
response date: 2013-01-28
response due date: null
sent date: 2011-07-07
title: Equalisation of the general and vocational baccalaureate
upvotes: 14
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/1960
