The Slovenes in the process of obtaining a formal education

As people mature, so their life conditions change. Frequently, their social status is improved in comparison with that of the previous family, and new educational opportunities are opened up for them. If earlier, as children and adolescents, they did not continue their schooling, they now have the opportunity to make up for this through “second chance education”. This is known in Slovenia as “education in second life opportunities”. A higher degree of formal education is the basis for lifelong education. If a person is not sufficiently open-minded and is not wholly developed, he or she cannot continue acquiring all the necessary knowledge, and will find it harder to develop his or her personal abilities. This is why such individuals become increasingly distanced from their environment. For people who Jack the appropriate formal education, the short-term forms of supplementary training are not of great assistance and are often unsuccessful. The implementation of programmes for acquiring a formal education requires great flexibility, combined with a concomitent matching of the courses to particular learning groups, and also didactic adaptation. In the regular school system, the schooling of adults within units comprised of adults, greatly reduces the success rate