Zofingen education center
The Bildungszentrum Zofingen (BZZ) is a school center in Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland . It comprises several cantonal and communal schools. These include a district school , two vocational schools , a primary school , a Special Education Special School (HPS) and a observatory .
investment
The BZZ is located southwest of the city center on the main road towards Strengelbach . To the south of this street, four other interconnected buildings are grouped around a central building, in which the higher schools are housed. There is a cafeteria, a multi-purpose hall for up to 400 people, an auditorium for 200 people, a classroom for 77 people and a seminar room for 50 people. To the north of the street there is a triple gymnasium, several outdoor sports facilities, the primary school and the HPS. There is a publicly accessible observatory on the central building.
offer
The canton school Zofingen (KSZ) offers a four-year high school education with the completion of a federal Matura . 70 teachers teach around 380 students. Optionally, the training can only be completed in German or in German and English (immersion). In 2009, the KSZ introduced its own pedagogical concept for self-organized learning (SOL), according to which the independence and talents of the students are to be promoted in a targeted manner.
At the vocational and advanced training school in Zofingen (BW Zofingen), around 1200 apprentices in commercial and manual professions receive their theoretical training. In several courses there is the possibility of obtaining the professional baccalaureate. Another vocational school is Inovatech, which focuses on technology and IT.
The primary school (1st to 6th grade) and the HPS are run by the city of Zofingen.
history
In 1962, a motion was submitted to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau calling for the creation of a canton school in Zofingen to relieve the existing locations in Aarau and Baden . The canton authorities supported the project and the city of Zofingen made the area of the Spitalhof available. In addition to the canton school, an industrial and a commercial vocational school, another primary school and a branch of the Aarau teacher training college were to be built in Zofingen. In order to be able to decentralize high school education in Aargau, a change in the law was necessary, which was adopted in 1968 by the Aargau voters.
Since the Aarau Cantonal School had meanwhile exceeded its capacity limits, the Zofingen Cantonal School was provisionally founded in Olten in the Canton of Solothurn in 1973 . In 1974, those eligible to vote in Zofingen approved an investment loan of CHF 28 million. It was the highest amount that the city had used for a project until then. In 1975 the teachers' seminar started operating in temporary barracks, followed by the opening of the BZZ in April 1976. The seminar was later converted into a higher educational institution (HPL). In 1998 the Aargau government council wanted to close the HPL for reasons of economy, but then refrained from doing so after strong political opposition. Since 2006, teacher training has been integrated into the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (FHNW). In August 2013, the FHNW Zofingen location was closed and primary school teacher training was relocated to the new campus in Brugg-Windisch.
Web links
- Cantonal school Zofingen
- Professional and advanced training Zofingen
- Inovatech Higher Technical School
Individual evidence
- ↑ Education Center BZZ (different rooms). City of Zofingen, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Detailed plan of the Zofingen education center. (PDF, 564 KB) Zofingen Cantonal School, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Observatory. Kantonsschule Zofingen, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
- ^ Zofingen Education Center. City of Zofingen, accessed on March 21, 2012 .
- ^ A b Christian Lüthi, Manuela Ros, Annemarie Roth, Andreas Steigmeier : Zofingen in the 19th and 20th centuries - a small town seeks its role . here + now, Baden 1999, ISBN 3-906419-02-9 , p. 276-277 .
- ↑ Aargauer Zeitung, regional edition of June 5, 2013: The University of Education is moving. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 1, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )