"In doing so, it is essential to know the real situation of the teaching staff in our schools. Lack of teachers and insufficient teaching expertise may be among the reasons why Slovak students have been performing below average in international comparisons for a long time," stressed the Vice-president of the office. As the national authority for external audit has long considered quality education to be an important issue, it is currently preparing an audit that should explain the reasons for the discrepancy in the data of the two state institutions. "One of the objectives of the audit will be to propose solutions to minimize misreporting. To identify priorities and set appropriate policies, it is necessary to know the actual situation and currently the Department of Education appears to be working with overstated data,"  further said H. Crkoňová. 

According to the school inspection data, 89.4% of lessons are taught professionally at the first level, but the schools inspected reported 6 percentage points more. At the second level, the difference between the Department's and the inspection's figures was almost 9 percentage points. One primary school reported data to the Department that corresponded to teaching proficiency at 100 per cent, but the reality found by the school inspection was 33.3 per cent.