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CENE ŠTUPAR – IN ENGLISH
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Cene Štupar – Centre for Continuing Education started in the 1950s when the so
called "workers' universities" were established. Today it is one of the biggest
institutions for continuing education in Slovenia. It is situated in the centre
of Ljubljana, Vojkova 1 and it has its facilities at Gosposvetska 1 and Kališnikov trg 12.
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Foreign Language Teaching
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Cene Štupar – Centre for Continuing Education and its staff started to introduce
new methods in foreign language teaching back in 1999, following the Council
of Europe guidelines. We are proud of the fact that we have been verified by
the National Examination Centre for testing English, French, Italian and German
at Levels A2 and B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference.
We also cooperate with the British Council, Goethe Institut and other foreign
language institutes (Italian, French and Spanish).
As an examination centre verified by the University of Ljubljana – Centre for
Slovene as a second/foreign language, we successfully organise courses and
examinations of Slovene as a foreign language on a basic level.
We want to bring foreign language learning to everybody who wants to communicate
in a foreign language.
All levels (of courses and examinations) are comparable with the levels
described in the Common European Framework of Reference, which has become
an official description of levels within the EU.
A novelty in the field of foreign language teaching in 2006 is the development
of a network of mentors for English Language Learning through the internet with
the programme English Discoveries Online, which allows students to be
independent in regards the time and space.
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Basic skills
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Cene Štupar – Centre for Continuing Education organizes basic skills educational
programmes - Primary school for adults, which is financed by the
Ministry of Education and Sport.
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Secondary schools
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Cene Štupar has achieved outstanding results in recent years in the field of
secondary education for adults.
We prepare individual study programmes, advise and counsel those who want to
learn and we follow them on their way to their goal. We put great emphasis on
the relationship between a teacher and a student as well as on the learning
process itself in order to enhance the quality of both. We have a rich
tradition of experience and we try to be the best by following the latest
trends in the development of education. We verify the satisfaction of our
students through questionnaires, we organize classroom teacher assessments,
talk to our students and try to find out about the positives and negatives
of education. We are aided by numerous teachers and mentors who are a very
important part of our endeavours as we have realised that the teaching methods
and relationship with the students are the most important factors in education.
Cene Štupar organises the following verified secondary school programmes for:
- Secondary vocational schools (cooks, waiters, administrators, shop assistants,
bakers' and conditioners' assistants, nurses, workers in food-processing
industry, a model of common educational programmes in mechanical engineering),
- Secondary technical schools (economics, tourism, catering, traffic,
fashion design and pre-school care),
- Secondary vocational-technical schools (economics, catering and
tourism and mechanical engineering).
By increasing the number of licences for national vocational qualifications
we are constantly trying to enrich our programmes.
We successfully cooperate with the Ministry of Education and Sport, the Ministry
of Labour, Family and Social Affairs and the National Employment Agency and
Ministry of Justice - Prison Dob. We also carry out many programmes within
the frame of European Social Funds and take part in public notices.
Our participants have classes two or three times a week. There is also a
possibility of choosing the form of self-study learning with the support of a mentor.
All participants receive specially prepared learning materials. They have
classes with lecturers having the opportunity to participate in the learning
process itself by discussions and exchanging of experiences in groups.
At the end they take exams.
The exams take place during the last class of a module or they are organized
twice a month for each subject.
Special preparation courses are organized before Matura exams. The majority
of our students are successful when taking the exams.
Our teachers and programme organizers like working with the participants.
Enrolment is the proof of our successful cooperation.
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Life-long learning
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In Cene Štupar, we are aware of the importance of life-long learning. We
organize programmes for improving adult literacy. The programmes were
developed by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education and are financed by
European Social Funds and the Ministry of Education and Sport so the
participants have no fee to pay.
We read and write together is a verified programme for family literacy.
In workshops for parents and children in the first three years of primary
school the participants learn Slovene, mathematics etc. in a different way.
This enhances the literacy and reading culture of all of the family members.
A bridge to education is a verified programme for functional literacy. In
workshops for young adults they get to know study techniques for successful
learning and they improve basic writing and mathematic skills. The goal of
this course is to enable an individual to enter further formal vocational
education and to improve their basic skills.
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Seminars
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For employees in companies and institutions we organize seminars and workshops
about workplace and work conditions, recovery of debts, public procurement
procedures, travel expenses, cash management, audits, sales techniques, rhetoric,
management of meetings, stress prevention, communication etc.
We also offer programmes for accounting and book-keeping, for commercialists,
for managing of accounting firms and courses for fork lift drivers, warehouse
managing, elevator control and computer courses. We also organise the good
hygiene practice course – HACCP.
We are licensed to organize health and safety in the workplace courses.
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Free time programmes
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In addition there are many free-time programmes: every year we organise beginner
and advanced guitar courses and different workshops (art, astrology, feng shui etc.)
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