A high level of education

447 elementary schools attended by around 170,000 pupils

98% of elementary school pupils continue at one of 141 secondary schools

89 tertiary education institutions are attended by around 90,403 students with around 15,000 students graduating each year

more than 20% of graduates continue with postgraduate studies

Science

The first known Slovenian military expert who achieved shining success in war through practical application of his theoretical inventions, a natural scientist and mathematician who gained world fame (and a hereditary baronial title) as the author of logarithmic tables that led to him becoming a member of several European academies. In his theoretical writings he reached for the stars, although he couldn't touch them at the time. Today he can, Jurij Vega is the only Slovene commemorated twice in the heavens - through the name of a crater on the moon and a planetoid that orbits the Sun.

Zizek is a bundle of unlikely elements. He's arguably the brightest and most significant star in Europe's philosophical cosmos, throwing out light by way of an infectious plundering of popular culture and an interest in the tabloid domain of Viagra and virtual pets. Crucially, he is a theorist of the whole when the perceived wisdom is that grand philosophical theory is now nether credible nor possible.

Science in numbers
1693 foundation of the Academia Operosorum Labacensium

1938 foundation of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art

Today: almost 400 research organisations and over 5000 full-time researchers

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