ZAGREB, April 25, 2019 – Science and Education Minister Blaženka Divjak said on Wednesday that around two billion kuna had been invested in the curricular reform over the last three years or an average 1.5 million kuna per school for education, textbooks and equipment.
Divjak said this at a national conference on the School for Life experimental programme, which was organised by her ministry and which drew principals, teachers and assistants from 74 schools participating in the School for Life programme.
“We have invested more than 1.5 million kuna per school in the last three years. Schools covered by this experimental programme have also received advance payments and there will be more investments in equipment, education and textbooks,” the minister said, adding that it needs to be known that the primary and secondary school systems had been neglected and had not been invested in for a long time.
Asked if schools had been provided with the necessary equipment for the curricular reform, Divjak said that computer equipment had arrived in schools, and that tablets and other equipment bought through public procurement would arrive in two weeks’ time.
Speaking of the reform of the system of higher education, the minister said that that reform was slightly different due to university autonomy.
More news about the curricular reform can be found in the Politics section.
