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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
Pressrelease: 39

Crafts school expands vocational high school to include health and social services specialisation

Yesterday, the city council decided to expand the range of courses on offer at the Berufliches Schulzentrum für Technik II -Handwerkerschule-, Schloßstraße 3, in the type of school Berufliches Gymnasium (BGy) to include health and social services. The new programme is due to start in the 2014/2015 school year.

With the addition of this subject, the BSZ für Technik II -Handwerkerschule-, in cooperation with the BSZ für Gesundheit und Sozialwesen, is responding to the changing conditions on the education and labour market. The new subject will include fundamental aspects of health and social sciences, which will be linked in an interdisciplinary way. By focussing on the human being as a bio-psycho-social unit, the subject contributes to an in-depth general education. Multi-perspective thinking and action in a social and health context are focussed on. Students should be given individual perspectives on aspects of life and work, particularly through practical exercises. The Abitur qualifies pupils to study at university.

The expansion is intended to help secure the craft school in the medium and long term. This was also a concern of the partial school network plan for vocational schools, which was adopted by the city council last year and is committed to maintaining all seven municipal vocational school centres.

As the subject area applied for is not currently offered at any of the other municipal vocational schools, no negative effects on the number of pupils at the other municipal vocational school centres are expected. The corresponding specialist demand for teachers for the profiling advanced course is to be met through cooperation with the BSZ for health and social services.

The expansion of the programme is based on a request from the school management of the BSZ. It represents a change to the school in accordance with Section 24 of the Free State Education Act and therefore still requires the approval of the Saxon State Ministry of Culture.