Adult education in Slovenia before and after the transition period

Abstract

After Slovenia became an independent country in 1991, the government put in place several systemic measures to support the development of adult education: funding for adult education was set up in the state budget, the Sector for Adult Education was established at the Ministry of Education; legislation on adult education was passed; an institution to facilitate the development of adult education was established; a national adult education programme was designed; a university programme in andragogy was founded; several private adult education organisations began operating, new adult education associations were created; a scientific journal on adult education started to be published; numerous developmental and research projects were launched with the aim of facilitating and furthering the culture of learning. The Lifelong Learning Strategy was passed. Despite all this, adult education in Slovenia is still not adequately system edited; it is still at the level it was three or four decades ago.