There is the Development Strategy of Slovenia, passed by the government in the year 2005. National Development Program 2007-2013 represents the operative document of the Strategy. Operative Program for Human Resources Development for the period 2007-2013 (co-financed exclusively from the European Social Fund) is a part of the National Development Program. “Stimulating the employability of job-seekers and the inactive“ is a development priority of the Operative Program. “Human resources development and lifelong learning development” is another development priority of the Operative program. Operative Program says that an important part of programs that will take place preferentially in the framework of the first mentioned priority will be dedicated also to stimulating the acquisition and the validation of non-formally and informally acquired knowledge, skills and competences, to national vocational qualifications, to workplace training and to shorter trainings. Operative Program also says that, in the framework of the second mentioned priority, first of all, activities including those which mean also inclusion and recognition of different forms of education and learning (formal, non-formal, informal (occasional/opportunistic)), will take place.
So, the strategic goal is also to operationalise the recognition of all forms of learning (formal, non-formal, informal (occasional/opportunistic)) and, in this way, to develop national qualification framework – insofar as this development is necessary for this operationalization.
However, there is no umbrella strategy for development of system for recognition of non-formal and informal learning that, of course, would also be in accordance with the existing legislation or with acts that link formal school education and certification system, enabling recognition of non-formally acquired knowledge, skills, competences, into a unique system (i.e. with the following acts: Vocational and Technical/Professional Education Act, Higher Education Act, National Vocational Qualification Act).
It is then a matter of activities concerning recognition of non-formal and informal learning which could be described as suitable and advantageous/favourable, however not as engaged and enthusiastic.
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