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Students taking part in the Maturita school leaving exam.
Wednesday saw Slovak students take foreign language exams.
Students propose changes to the way Slovak language is taught. Anton Hrachovský
Eva Ohraďanová attending a session of the Košice Self-Governing Region about the Valaliky Industrial Park and the potential for involving private schools.
Children need to be taught differently to navigate today’s world, teachers say.
Language schools are teaching students to work with AI chatbots and translation apps.
Use of translation apps and chatbots should be encouraged, but limits recognised, say teachers.
Education Minister Tomáš Drucker assessed the results of Slovak students in PISA testing of reading comprehension as “exceptionally tragic”.
Poor children don’t have equal opportunities to get a good education.
The University of Economics in Bratislava.
Slovak universities in global university rankings. Marta Ďurianová
Comenius University in Bratislava.
Foreign students need fewer points than Slovak students to be accepted by Slovak medical faculties.
Nature-based learning offers a holistic learning experience and a sense of caring for the environment from an early age.
Nature-based learning offers a sense of caring for the environment from an early age.
A new ecological centre in Bratislava.
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In addition, a new ecological centre has opened in the Kamzík area.
Play is important for children of all ages, not just young children.
The most important thing to remember about play: learning can be fun.
ChatGPT is developed by a company called OpenAI.
Or will high-tech plagiarism spell the end of humankind?
English teachers celebrated International Teachers' Day at the conference
Teaching can be a lonely job with limited interaction with other colleagues.
A Lutheran priest outside the Lutheran High School in Tisovec in 2007.
Dozens of Americans taught Slovak students in Tisovec in the past, but the local school is now struggling to find teachers from overseas.
Friends drinking a kapurková shot.
The last column was dedicated to saying hello; now we go over the last word, whether saying goodbye or taking the customary last shot.
Kindness is an action born from empathy.
Acts of kindness have a positive impact not only on the recipients of the kindness.
Students in Slovakia have been sitting Maturita tests this week.
Sit this year's Maturita exam from English, which Slovak students took on Wednesday, without having to worry about your results.
Tom Nicholson
Slovak Matters is a column dedicated to learning Slovak - here we start with greetings and everything you need to know to say "good day".
The town of Kremnica is known for minting coins.
A legendary school in Kremnica, central Slovakia, is close to collapse.
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