Slovakia’s education ministry is under pressure to boost its dual education system that was officially launched two years ago. The aim was to train employees.

So far some 2,800 have been enrolled. But this is way below targets. The programme, which was launched in November 2016, expected as many as 12,000 students to be educated within the system by 2020.

As reported by The Slovak Spectator, if the targets are not met, Slovakia may have to return the European Union funding that was allocat...