slovenia has one of the highest shares of the population aged to to have completed at least upper secondary education and ranks high in international educational achievement tests nevertheless in some areas reforms could significantly improve performance and equip the labour force with the skills most in demand in a rapidly changing economy in particular low studentteacher ratios small class sizes and a high share of nonteaching staff suggest that there is room for improving spending efficiency rationalising teaching and nonteaching staff would also free up valuable public resources that could be redirected towards underfunded aspects of the education system