Educational Transformation in Slovakia: The Ongoing Search for a Solution

The study presents the Slovak Educational System in its historical perspective, especially in a period of time after political changes in 1989 characterised as a started but not finished yet process of transformation. The authors describe the current shape of this system in some specific areas - management and administration of the educational system, financing of the school system, structure of the Slovak educational system, curricular policy and development, monitoring and quality controle, school authonomy and its instruments, the role of the teachers, support structures and social dimension. They characerise the key problems and perspectives of the process of transformation, where some neccessery steps were already done, but the outcomes for a complex educational reform are still not prepared as a main priority of the govermental policy, although the Slovak education system shows the attributes of stagnation, what would have a bad impact to a future of economic growth and a development of social life in the country.