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ADDRESS: 5800 PLEVEN, BULGARIA DRUZHBA
e-mail : dfsgintelekt@abv.bg
State School of Finance and Management “Intellect” was set up in Pleven in 1990 be its first director Mrs Nina Miteva. At present it is headed by Emil Raikov.
It is a vocational school with economic bias and intensive study of foreign languages and provides training in eight specialities to students from the 8th to the 12th grade. Over 90 % of the school-leavers continue their education in universities in this country and abroad – most often Germany, the USA or Great Britain. The general and vocational subjects are taught by qualified teachers who rely on innovative and interactive methods in their approach to the syllabuses as well as in the extra-curricular activities. Successful work has been done within the framework of the educational programmes of the European Union – “Leonardo da Vinci”: “Communication Systems in Management Today” project (2004) and “ Staff Management in Small and Medium Business” (2006); “Socrates”, “ Komenski”: “Festivals and Holidays in Europe”, and “Junior Achievement”, The Students’ Company “Junior Achievement”, which has been in operation since 1998, was transformed into a vocational-training firm, whose members have remarkable achievements in the field of advertising, public speaking, and business ethics at national and international competitions and conferences. Staff and students are open for new ideas, partners and opportunities, which can motivate young people to fulifil the device “It’s for life, not for school that we prepare”. PROJECTS The State School of Finance and Management provides training to 570 students in eight different subjects such as Banking and Insurance, Customs and Excise Administration, Accountancy, Financial Management, Business Administration, etc. Since 1996 a lot of successful projects have been completed (Business Curriculum (1997), SPA project (2000), Leonardo da Vinci -Communication Systems in Management Today (2004), Socrates, Comenius - Festivals and Holidays in Europe (2005), others are still in progress(Staff Management in Small and Medium Business (2006), E-twinning Being E-friends (2007) and some new ones are under consideration (Comenius LLP - Motivating students to learn foreign languages and another E-learning project). Both the teachers and students work in close cooperation and achieve remarkable results.
Business Curriculum (1997) In 1996/1997 the American volunteer Kitty Mazzarela, who taught English at our school, and Ilonka Nestorova - a teacher-trainer from the same school, successfully completed a project addressing the needs for better teaching materials and methods. The grant provided the school with $1,350 with which to purchase books for teaching Business English and for the development of a New Business Curriculum.
SPA project (2000) In 2000/2001 another American volunteer - Kristin White - and her Bulgarian counterpart Nelly Tsvetkova working with Mihaela Karamfilova and Ani Andreeva - helped the school with the second SPA project for creating a computer laboratory. With the money we got from the Small Project Assistance Program (thanks to the American Peace Corps in Bulgaria) - six computers, a printer and a scanner were purchased for the new laboratory opened on June 8, 2001.
Leonardo da Vinci -Communication Systems in Management Today (2004)
Socrates, Comenius - Festivals and Holidays in Europe (2005)
Staff Management in Small and Medium Business (2006), E-twinning Being E-friends (2007) The project started in September 2006 and will finish in May 2007. It is a virtual project done by students and teachers from Finland, Bulgaria, Germany and the Czech Republic coordinated by Portugal. Students from X b class and their teacher Nelly Tsvetkova work on different topics including Historical heritage, Our region and Our Country, Places of interest, etc. creating pictures and Word documents, presentations, blogs and web sites to share with their partners.
Junior Achievement Students’ Company in Intellect Junior Achievement Bulgaria is a Non-Governmental Organisation whose aim is to promote understanding of Free Market Structures and International Business. The Students’ Company “Junior Achievement”, which has been in operation in our school since 1998, was transformed into a vocational-training firm, whose members have remarkable achievements in the field of advertising, public speaking, and business ethics at national and international competitions and conferences. They managed to participate in two National MESE (Management and Economics Simulation Exercise) competitions organised by Junior Achievement in 1999 when our students won two second prizes in the category of printed and audio advertisements as well as the first prize in impromptu business speaking. Two students from the Junior Achievement teams were selected to participate in an international economics cyber competition, sponsored by Hewlett Packard (The Hewlett Packard Global Challenge). In 2000 a student from the same team won the first prize for his essay on economic issues - he was selected to participate in a one-week seminar in the University of Chicago. Developing the national strategy for reproductive health – under the aegis of the United Nations Organisation 2006-2007 The aim of the project carried out by Valya Banova – our Biology teacher- and students from Xth classes is to educate students in the sphere of sexual and reproductive health education using the method Peers teach peers. up |
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