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Cadets at civilian schools

Prospective members of the SVK Armed Forces will be given a possibility to achieve university education during a preparatory state service not only at military academies, even abroad. The change of the Act on the state service of professional soldiers will apply to the graduates in fields where the armed forces face a crisis over a shortage of specialists, namely aviation, IT, medicine or psychology.

A student will receive university education during his/her service in a rank of 1st Degree Private. In the course of his or her studies he/she will be given a monthly pay equal to 50% of salary of 2nd Degree Private, 1st salary rate, and he/she will be entitled to free accommodation and boarding. During his/her studies he/she well be a regular soldier, with all inherent discretions and duties permitted and imposed by law. In the case such student would not complete his/her studies or, having finished his/her studies, he/she would decide to quit the SVK Armed Forces before having served at least nine years, he/she would have to compensate costs incurred by the defence establishment in connection with said student’s or graduate’s university studies, or at least a proportion of such costs.