ESTONIA 28.X. – 3.XI. 2012.

Economic school system and

school firm

Ljiljana Gračanin, prof.

School programs

General Secondary School

Economics

Hotel and tourism

Salesman

Economics program lasts 4 years.Basic educational subjects:

Croatian language

English or German language with correspondance

history (2 years)

religious education or Ethics

physical education

mathematics

chemistry (1 year)

biology (1 year)

basic economy (4 years)

accounting (4 years)

business communication (2 years)

marketing (2 years)

banking and insurance (2 years)

enterprenuership (2 years)

Obligatory economic subjects

school firm (2 years)

ICT (2 years)

statistics (1 year)

communication and presenting skills (1 year)

capital market (1 year)

business legal environment (1 year)

coorporate social responsibility (1 year)

Optional economic subjects:

1st year

family business

global business environmet

2nd year

introduction to business managment

basic tourism

3rd year

non-profit accounting

sales managment

4th year

analysis of financial reports

marketing service

Practice training in real firms

• Students go to practice to real firms during their first 3 years of secondary education.

• Practice training is compulsary

• They do practice during their summer or winter holidays.

Introduced to our school in 2006 as an optional subject

Students study it in 11th and 12th grade (3rd and 4th class of secondary school)

School firm

We start with the idea of the productMake logo, poster, business cards, brochures, leaflets and other marketing materialsThen comes the registration

Registration of the school firm in Agency for Vocational Education and Training:

Commercial CourtCentral Bureau of Statistics (national classification of activities)BankHealth insuranceRetirement insuranceTax administrationCustoms

When the registration is finished we make contact with other school firms in our country and foreign school firmsSchool firm is divided into 5 sections:

- sales and marketing

- purchase

- accounting

- administration

- managment

• We also teach students:– tolerance,– communicational skills– to be kind– dress code– mobing– bonton– business ethics …

Our National Agency for Vocational Education suggests us to find real businnes firms as our partners, which do the same business product like our school firm.

They help us:- give products for fairs of school firms- students can visit the firm- they give us forms and documents that we compare with

the documents we make in our own school firm

Thank you for your attention.