Matej Bel University (commonly referred as Matej Bel or UMB ), ( Slovak : Univerzita Mateja Bela ) is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica . The university was established in 1992. It bears the name of Matthias Bel , a Hungarian-Slovak Lutheran scholar of the 18th century. UMB comprises six faculties that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. The university provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities , social sciences and natural sciences .
19-495: Throughout its existence, UMB alumni, faculty, and staff have included one prime minister of Slovakia; four justices of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia , two of whom currently serve; numerous Fulbright Scholars ; and multiple senior EU and Slovak officials. Additionally, students and alumni have won 4 Olympic medals (2 gold). Banská Bystrica (until 1920: Besztercebánya) has a long tradition in schooling and culture. In
38-409: A decentralized institution, with governing authority shared among its academic faculties. The Governing Council is the unicameral legislative organ of the central administration, overseeing general academic, business and institutional affairs. The rector is appointed by the council as the chief executive. Matej Bel University currently comprises six faculties: The Matej Bel University Library System
57-528: Is composed of thirteen judges appointed for twelve years and selected by the President from a list of twenty-six candidates elected by the National Council (by a simple majority vote). A candidate for constitutional judge must be electable to the National Council, be at least 40 years old, be a law school graduate and be practising law for at least 15 years. Judges may be taken into custody only with consent of
76-710: Is one of the largest university-academic library systems in Slovakia, measured by number of volumes held. Establishment of the Matej Bel University Library in Banská Bystrica is connected with the foundation of the Higher College of Education in Banská Bystrica in 1954. In 1964, after the foundation of Faculty of Education, it became the central library of the faculty. Since 1 January 1993 the library has served as Matej Bel University Library in Banská Bystrica. In
95-549: Is remembered as Constitution Day on 1 September. In 1969, Czechoslovakia became a federation with the Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic as its constituent parts. This happened as a result of Prague Spring reforms, which was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia as a communist state after World War II. However, in 1969, the normalization period started and while formally
114-583: The Kingdom of Hungary . In the school year 1856–57 the first Teacher's Preparation Study was founded in Besztercebánya, where Slovak language was taught together with German and Latin, thanks to the bishop Štefan Moyses . In the school year 1949–50, a branch of the Faculty of Education, Slovak University of Bratislava , was established in Banská Bystrica. The first higher school appeared in Banská Bystrica in 1954. It
133-616: The National Council of the Slovak Republic , the president of Slovakia, the Government of Slovakia, a court, the general prosecutor or anyone in the case of constitutional complaints. Originally, the Court had ten judges appointed for seven years by the President, who selected them from a list of twenty candidates chosen by the National Council. After a constitutional amendment in 2001, it
152-789: The University of Bologna in Italy, Waseda University in Japan, Sogang University in South Korea, and Indiana University in United States. Today, Matej Bel University has 35 partnerships worldwide, apart from these agreements, the faculties have also signed agreements on cooperation based on the specific needs of their own, or their departments, totaling the number of partnerships to more than 80. Constitutional Court of Slovakia The Constitutional Court of Slovakia (officially Constitutional Court of
171-461: The 13th century, there had already existed a parish school , later a town school. In the 17th century, a Jesuit school, as well as Evangelical grammar schools, were founded. Matthias Bel , after whom the university is named, studied and later worked as a rector at the latter. In the 1850s and 1860s, the Catholic grammar school with Slovak as a tuition language became an important center of education in
190-787: The Constitutional Court. Constitution of Slovakia The Constitution of Slovakia , officially the Constitution of the Slovak Republic ( Slovak : Ústava Slovenskej republiky ), is the current constitution of Slovakia . It was passed by the Slovak National Council on 1 September 1992 and signed on 3 September 1992 in the Knights Hall of the Bratislava Castle . The constitution went to effect on 1 October 1992 (1 January 1993 in some parts). The day of constitution
209-532: The Plank Committee, led by Professor Karol Plank. This included professionals from the legal field, political figures and prominent professors of law. The complexity of the task were not limited to: Together, said people prepared the first and eventually the final draft of the Slovak Constitution. The only problem with this remains that none of them are capable of fairly discerning who did what portion of
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#1732883767239228-602: The Slovak Republic , Slovak : Ústavný súd Slovenskej republiky ) is a special court established by the Constitution of Slovakia . Its seat is in Košice in eastern Slovakia . Its head is Ivan Fiačan (since 2019). The basic standing of the court and its judges is regulated by the constitution (more precisely, chapter seven, part one). It rules on the compatibility of laws, decrees (either by government or local administration bodies) and legal regulations (issued by local state administration or resulting from international treaties) with
247-530: The constitution are hard if not impossible to execute. The text of the Constitution is divided into the preamble and nine parts, with most being divided into chapters, which are also divided into 156 articles but do not need to be divided further into paragraphs and/or letters. Three fifths of the votes in the parliament are necessary to supplement and/or amend the Constitution. It has been amended several times. In June 2023, The Slovakian parliament voted with
266-509: The constitution. It also decides on disputes between bodies of state administration, unless if the law specifies that these disputes are decided by another state body, complaints against legally valid decisions of state bodies, elections, referendums etc., and is the only court that can try the President of Slovakia for high treason . The Court initiates proceedings on the basis of a proposal submitted by: at least one-fifth (i.e. 30) deputies of
285-542: The federation was preserved, power was again centralized. The 1968 constitutional law "On the Czecho-Slovak Federation" (No. 143/1968, Art. 142) stipulated that after passing the new federal constitution, both republics would adopt their own constitutions, but this was never implemented. First works on a Slovak constitution started right after the Velvet revolution in 1990. In March 1990, a group of legal experts formed
304-791: The same year, the Library of the Faculty of Economy of Services and Tourism in Banská Bystrica was annexed to the Central Library of the Faculty of Education. Since 1975 the Library of the Faculty of Economy of Services and Travel served as a branch of the Central Economic Library in Bratislava. In 1996 the library system was decentralized. Having regard to the Academic Senate of the University of Matej Bel. The Matej Bel University Library system
323-533: The work on the final version of the Slovak Constitution, despite any of them being rarely mentioned whilst speaking of the Constitution itself. The Slovak Constitution was prepared quickly in 1992, with many formulations taken directly from the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 and being marked by a compromise with socialism, while also taking several examples from constitutions of Western countries. According to Slovak lawyer Ján Drgonec, many parts of
342-535: Was abolished on 1 April 1996, and four new libraries were established, those were directly controlled by the faculties. This changed on 1 January 2000, when the Rector UMB Library act of 2000 entered into force, this connected the decentralized libraries of the faculties into the "Matej Bel University Library system. Cooperation of the university with other universities and institutions is widespread and involves many national and international organizations, such as
361-546: Was called the Higher School of Pedagogy. On 1 September 1964 the Faculty of Education was founded. In 1973, the branch of the Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava , was established and in 1977 transformed into the Faculty of Economics of Services and Tourism. Matej Bel University was established on 1 July 1992, after the integration of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Economics of Services and Tourism. The Matej Bel University has traditionally been
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