The Higher Pedagogical School begins its work in Zagreb, where the tambura is introduced as a subject at the Department of Music lasting three years or six semesters. The class is led by the famous tambura pedagogue Slavko Janković, and it is the first legal appearance of tambura in the curriculum of a higher education institution.
In the early 1980s, the tambura is taught as a subject at the VIII. Department of Musical Culture at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. The first lecturer is Željko Bradić, and since 1985, Siniša Leopold has taken his place. The students, future music culture teachers, are supposed to learn to play all the tamburas of the GD system and master the methodology of working with the tambura orchestra over 4 semesters.
In 1984, the study of musical culture is founded at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Osijek, and the subject of the tambura becomes a compulsory subject for students of musical culture.
In the period from 2011 to 2013, at the Art Academy in Osijek, as part of the Music Pedagogy course, the Tambura module, the Tambura course I - V (individual teaching of the tambura, the bisernica and the brač) and the course Tambura ensemble are introduced.
In the academic year 2016/2017 at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, the integrated graduate study of Music Pedagogy - tambura module, course Tambura 1, (individual teaching of tambura, bisernica and brač) starts up.
In 2017, at the Art Academy in Osijek (later the Academy of Arts and Culture), the Tamburastudy is launched.
In 2019, the Tambura study is launchedat the Academy of Music in Zagreb.
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