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Results of secondary technical education reform presented
Belgrade,
31 August 2004
Representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Education and Sport presented today the results and activities planned for the upcoming period within the Programme of reform of secondary technical education, launched in August 2003 by the Ministry and the European Union.
Assistant Minister of Education and Head of the Unit for the Programme Implementation Gabriela Bratic said that the European Union, through the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), has set aside €13 million for the programme, whose implementation will last by August 18, 2005.
The programme includes 50 schools from five different fields of study which will have, according to some estimates, a very important role in the development of Serbia in the future decades. These five areas are electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, agriculture and health. She added that five more technical schools in the cities where the reviving of industry is expected will be given support for the organisation of continued training of the adults.
Bratic said that new curricula have been prepared under the programme for twenty professions in three-year and four-year secondary schools in the above mentioned fields of study.
One of the new elements in the curricula is a different ratio between theoretical lectures and practical training, said Bratic, specifying that in the three-year schools the ratio will be 70 percent of practice-30 percent of theory, while in four-year schools, that ration will be 60 to 40.
She said that more than 1,200 teachers have completed the training for teaching the new education programmes, and added that a special document on the new grading system has been prepared.
Approximately €2 million from the reform programme has been set aside for the refurbishment of 49 secondary technical schools. The repair works will include roofs, electrical and heating installations, as well as the change of carpentry. She highlighted that some schools in Vojvodina will be reconstructed for the first time in hundred years.
The equipping of schools will be carried out in two phases and will cost €5.5 million. In the first phase, schools will get 1,200 computers with follow-up equipment, while in the second phase, schools will be provided with state-of-the-art equipment for each field of study.
Head of the school network Radovan Zivkov said that the goal of the reform is to change the general approach to teaching, to introduce the use of active methods, to adjust programmes to student needs and enhance their individualisation.
The programme includes 50 schools from five different fields of study which will have, according to some estimates, a very important role in the development of Serbia in the future decades. These five areas are electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, agriculture and health. She added that five more technical schools in the cities where the reviving of industry is expected will be given support for the organisation of continued training of the adults.
Bratic said that new curricula have been prepared under the programme for twenty professions in three-year and four-year secondary schools in the above mentioned fields of study.
One of the new elements in the curricula is a different ratio between theoretical lectures and practical training, said Bratic, specifying that in the three-year schools the ratio will be 70 percent of practice-30 percent of theory, while in four-year schools, that ration will be 60 to 40.
She said that more than 1,200 teachers have completed the training for teaching the new education programmes, and added that a special document on the new grading system has been prepared.
Approximately €2 million from the reform programme has been set aside for the refurbishment of 49 secondary technical schools. The repair works will include roofs, electrical and heating installations, as well as the change of carpentry. She highlighted that some schools in Vojvodina will be reconstructed for the first time in hundred years.
The equipping of schools will be carried out in two phases and will cost €5.5 million. In the first phase, schools will get 1,200 computers with follow-up equipment, while in the second phase, schools will be provided with state-of-the-art equipment for each field of study.
Head of the school network Radovan Zivkov said that the goal of the reform is to change the general approach to teaching, to introduce the use of active methods, to adjust programmes to student needs and enhance their individualisation.
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