National Diversity At Universities In Slovakia

Slovakia is in its history and these days connected with emigration and also with immigration. It led to clashes and mutual influence of different cultures during amount of migration flows. Jewish, Hungarians, Roma people, Germans, Croatians, Serbians and other nationalities gradually come to our area. These groups interacted with one another and together created what is now called „Slovak“ culture. Of course, migration to our country continues and they create so called „new“ minorities. (1) However, we can not say with certainty how many foreigners/migrants are in our country. Police has only a number of foreigners/migrants who either applied for any type of residence or they were stopped as illegal immigrants. 68 405 foreigners/migrants with legal residence were in Slovakia till 30 June 2013, of who 42 876 (62,7%) were citizens from E. U. countries. (2) We can say that appopriate 0,5% from all citizens are residents who do not have our citizenship. (3) 19,3 % of our country population has another nationality as Slovak. (4) Next part of our presentation is concered on a description of study opportunities at universities in Slovakia and there also is the number of foreign students studing at these schools. (8) We also note some attitude of Slovak high students to migrants. Ethnic diversity is a natural part of our of our history and therefore it is necessary to also reflect this. We consider, it is necessary to pay attention to diversity management in schools in connection with the above information. In Slovakia, this issue hardly pays attention. In doing research for this presentation, we found that in Slovakia, there was realized one research which was, however, focused only on primary schools pupils and an article titled „The Diversity of the School Enviroment from a teachers perspective“. Even at the website of Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, we did not find any information on this issue. We think this is due to a fact that in Slovakia there is still a small number of migrants and there is no serious problems in a coexistance of minorities. Hovever, we should learn from good practice abroad, in order to avoid serious problems.