Slovenia is above the EU average and is still progressing towards the 2010 goals it has set itself regarding its education system under the Lisbon Strategy, an annual European Commission report shows.
The report is based on five education benchmarks. Overall, Slovenia placed among the best nine member states, alongside Finland, Denmark, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, Poland, Norway and Iceland.
Slovenia is one of the top performers alongside the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia regarding the number of people with completed upper secondary education.
EU's goal is to increase the number of 22 year-olds who have completed upper secondary education to 85% by 2010. Since 2000, the overall EU data suggest a slight increase of 20 to 24 year-olds who had completed secondary education (from 76.6% to 78.1%).
The EU would also like to cut the number of early school leavers to less than 10%. In 2007, the number was down from 17.6% to 14.8%. According to the report, Slovenia is probably a top achiever in this category as well, however Slovenia's recent data are considered unreliable or uncertain.
On the other hand, Slovenia had one of the lowest results for total number of graduates in maths, science and technology, while the EU27 data suggest that the number of maths, science and technology graduates increased by 29% between 2000 and 2007.
Slovenia achieved average results in participation of adults in lifelong learning, where the EU data suggests a 2.6% increase.
It was also among the average members regarding the share of low achievers in reading among 15 year-olds, where the overall EU results deteriorated, as the number of children with bad reading skills increased from 21.3% in 2000 to 24.1% in 2006.
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