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The contribution is based on the theoretical concept of educational capital, the author of which is the professor Albert Ziegler. The term educational capital seeks to characterize all sources used in educational process. It is, in particular, the teaching capital and social capital. The other components consist of action capital, which is reflected in the ability properly respond in situations in this way into practise. The authors Howard, McLaughlin and Vacha attribute important meaning to educational capital, seeing it as a „driver“ of the entire human capital,. In her professional activity, the author of the work focuses on more detailed specification of educational capital in secondary and tertiary education. The paper contains theoretical construct of educational capital components. Individual components of educational capital – soft skills in study, the ways of education and learning, the students’ ability to solve professional and life problems, key competences in profession and civic awareness. The paper further contains results of author’s research probe on the reflection of students and graduates of secondary vocational schools focused on preparation of personnel officers and andragogists. The results of this survey are confronted with a similar survey conducted by the author with the students of bachelor and master study of andragogy at the Jan Amos Komensky University. At the conclusion of the paper, there is stated that the results of the survey cannot be too much generalised but yet it brings interesting ideas for solving the questions of interconnection of secondary and higher education.