Mulvany Vocational College Herne

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Mulvany Vocational College Herne
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type of school Vocational college
place Herne
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '42 "  N , 7 ° 12' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '42 "  N , 7 ° 12' 52"  E
carrier City of Herne
student around 2000
Teachers 107
management Thomas Brechtken / Meike Dickamp
Website www.bkherne.de

The Mulvany Vocational College Herne (until February 2, 2015: Vocational College for Business and Administration ) is a vocational school for the professional field of business and administration in Herne . Around 2000 pupils are taught by around 100 teachers in eight full-time school, fourteen part-time school courses and two courses in professional development.

history

On September 1, 1901, the city council of Herne agreed to the request of the Association for the Protection of Business Interests - a representation of the interests of the Herne merchants - for logistical and financial support in the establishment of a commercial training school. From 1902 onwards, six teachers taught German, commercial arithmetic, single and double bookkeeping, and shorthand, to 66 students four evenings a week. There had already been attempts to initiate commercial schooling, but it was only with this step that a continuous development that continues to this day was established.

In 1908, a commercial training school for boys was set up in Wanne (two classes). In 1911, the city of Herne took over the commercial training school, which had been privately organized until then, and made it mandatory for all male commercial apprentices from office and sales to attend. The industrial and commercial advanced training schools are merged in 1920. On the basis of a ministerial decree, the advanced training school in Herne was renamed “Commercial Vocational School” in 1921 because “it introduces the pupils to a new educational area around the focus of the profession”. At the same time, the public was given an impression of “the importance of the vocational training idea and the values ​​of an orderly vocational education”.

On April 1, 1926, female sales apprentices from retail businesses were trained for the first time. The reason for this measure is the knowledge gained four years earlier that “these young people must also be given the opportunity to deepen their vocational training in addition to practical teaching”. In 1928, 197 students were taught in seven boys 'classes and 399 girls in 18 girls' classes. The lessons were increasingly differentiated according to business branches.

After overcoming the economic crisis, student numbers gradually recovered in the 1930s. At the same time, the motto was "Increase in performance through systematic vocational training". This goal is to be achieved above all through the formation of further specialist classes and the introduction of co-education, the joint schooling of girls and boys.

In the war years 1939–1945, school operations suffered interruptions due to the war, before it had to be stopped completely in 1945. In Wanne-Eickel, the vocational schools, which were united after the city was founded, worked until September 1944; the vocational schools were evacuated to Stolp in Pomerania (now Poland) a year earlier.

In January 1946, lessons were resumed in Herne with 191 boys and 441 girls in 19 classes. A lack of space and staff force compromises: After all, the vocational school director Adolf Henn, who has been in office since 1946, is able to wrest the primary school building on Gräffstrasse from the city. The development is similar in Wanne-Eickel: In August 1945, the preparatory work for the reopening of the vocational and vocational schools begins, and in the spring of 1946 school operations can be resumed with restrictions. The Josef, Melanchthon and Kirchschule are initially available - and only in the late afternoon hours - and the Hildegardisschule will be added in the course of the year, which will then be used all day from January 1947.

In 1954, four new schools were built one after the other on the Westring in Herne. The fourth wing of the building houses the commercial vocational schools. In Wanne-Eickel, the vocational schools move into the specially constructed building complex in Steinstrasse, which, with its teaching and training rooms, kitchens, laboratories and demonstration workshops, was one of the most modern in the Ruhr area at the time. When Herne and Wanne-Eickel merged, the entire commercial area later moved to the Westring. The buildings on Steinstrasse have been part of the Emschertal Vocational College of the city of Herne since then.

The personnel situation was so tense in 1966, the associated loss of lessons so dramatic that the Ruhr-Nachrichten wrote an article on February 1st: "Only 45 minutes of arithmetic every two weeks: The vocational school drives into a catastrophe". In this situation, the previously existing school is split up into a commercial and a commercial, technical and domestic school: the commercial schools of the city of Herne are created. This becomes the training school of the study seminar in Dortmund, which relaxes the personnel situation.

In 1972 the necessary extension (E-wing) is completed. With the establishment of a grammar school branch of the higher commercial school in 1982, the opportunity was created for the first time to obtain the full Abitur at the commercial schools. The first round is successfully completed by 19 students.

Together with the non-profit employment company of the city of Herne, an application was made to the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for the establishment of a cooperative training and further education center in spatial connection with the commercial schools. The foundation stone was laid in 1998, a year later the topping-out ceremony was held, and in December 2000 the Cooperative Training Center on Westring was officially inaugurated and given its intended purpose.

The turn in information technology reached vocational schools in 1985. The commercial schools are one of the three vocational schools in the Arnsberg administrative region, which, in the course of teacher training measures, help to make teaching even more practical after acquiring basic knowledge in the areas of data processing and IT.

Heribert Gathmann became headmaster of the commercial schools in 1990 after Manfred Albrecht. At the same time, as a result of the municipal reform, the commercial department of the bundle school in Wanne-Eickel was integrated into the commercial schools of the city of Herne. The revision of the legal regulations on which the work at vocational schools is based resulted in the fact that the commercial schools of the city of Herne became the vocational college for economy and administration of the city of Herne with an upper level. The establishment of the commercial assistant / foreign language course makes it possible to obtain a school leaving certificate (Fachhochschulreife) in connection with a vocational qualification according to state law.

The training center (W building) on ​​Westring is inaugurated in 2000. The BeKoSch project was justified: The "development of professional skills for showmen" is the goal of a mixture of block teaching and computer-aided distance learning. The vocational college for economics and administration, together with the Emschertal vocational college, is responsible for the conception and implementation. In December, the vocational college presents its school program, which presents the concepts and objectives for further school development in terms of curriculum, pedagogical, organizational and personal aspects.

In 2007 the European Commission approved the application for an e-learning project (learning with electronic media). Project partner - u. a. also the Arnsberg district government - from five European countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Bulgaria and Germany) will in future develop a blended learning concept in close cooperation with the German showmen associations DSB and BSM. Under the abbreviation ELVET (Electronic Learning for Vocational Education of Travelers / Electronic learning for vocational education travelers) should u. a. a learning concept for the Internet can be developed.

In February 2008, the vocational college was the first Herner school to receive the title “European School in North Rhine-Westphalia”. On September 4th, the vocational college will be awarded the maximum bonus of € 12,000 as part of the school development prize “Good Healthy School 2008” and on September 8th with the “Individual Support” seal of approval. In 2009 there was another award with the “Career Choice Seal”.

At the end of January 2010, the long-standing director Heribert Gathmann will retire. On June 1st, Elke Vormfenne starts working as the headmistress of the vocational college. The "Fachoberschule 13 (FOS 13)" course was established. The training courses FOS 12B and Fachschule für Wirtschaft with the focus on human resource management and foreign languages ​​will be included in the training program in 2010. As part of the federal project, the vocational college for WuV is provided with a social worker.

The vocational college for WuV is one of the 20 nominated schools for the German School Prize 2011. The course “Fachoberschule 12 (FOS 12)” is approved.

The vocational college for business and administration will be renamed Mulvany vocational college in Herne in 2015 . It is named after the Irish engineer William Thomas Mulvany (1806–1885), who modernized mining technology in the Ruhr area and worked as an entrepreneur ( Erin colliery in Castrop-Rauxel ).

Courses

Part-time school courses

Vocational school (dual system)

In the vocational school area, students are taught in the following courses:

Classes for students without an apprenticeship

Students who do not have an apprenticeship contract can gain professional experience in the following courses and, if necessary, catch up on their secondary school diploma:

Professional qualification through dualization

The students of this course work three days a week in an internship company and two days they take part in school lessons. In the subject of job-related theory / specialist practice, the topics correspond to the content of the first year of training in the retail trade.

Anyone who has completed compulsory full-time education can be admitted to the BQD course. In the course of the school year, an examination of qualification modules I to IV takes place for all students. If the performance in these exams is at least sufficient, the IHK recognizes these qualification modules. This gives you the opportunity to shorten a subsequent training period. At the end of the school year, a certificate of completion is obtained if at least sufficient performance can be demonstrated in all subjects or poor performance in only one subject.

Pre-vocational training

Career preparation training measures are offered to career starters and those returning to work .

Professional skills for showmen

Compulsory vocational schooling is difficult for the next generation of showmen, as their training place is usually their parents' company. Because of these special conditions, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in coordination with the showman associations, has started the school experiment "BeKoSch" (professional competencies for showmen) and set up a vocational school offer at the vocational colleges of the city of Herne, which as block lessons during the winter months contains job-specific content in commercial and commercial technical area for young travelers. All school authorities recognize the courses in Herne as compulsory vocational school. For this, the young people have to attend a total of twelve weeks of block courses in three years, which are supplemented by distance learning courses during the travel time. The distance learning courses are set up as "eLearning" on the Internet using a PC. A boarding school with socio-educational support from the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce is available for students who do not arrive daily.

Full-time school courses

All full-time school courses provide general qualifications and professional qualifications. Some courses are dual qualifications as they enable vocational training and the acquisition of general qualifications. All secondary level I qualifications (secondary school leaving certificate, intermediate school leaving certificate, qualification note) can be made up for or general qualifications from upper secondary level (technical college entrance qualification, general college entrance qualification). The courses of study differ accordingly in terms of the entry requirements (required secondary school degree) and the possible degrees that can be achieved at the vocational college. As a result, the duration of the courses also differs.

Commercial school

Pupils can attend the two-year vocational school if they have completed compulsory full-time schooling and obtained a secondary school leaving certificate after class 9 or 10. If the final certificate shows at most an inadequate and not an unsatisfactory grade, the qualification “Basic Vocational Training” is awarded. In addition, the “Mittlere Schulprüfung (FOR)” is achieved if the subjects German / communication, English and mathematics have achieved at least sufficient results on average. If good or satisfactory results have been achieved in these and three other subjects, entitlement to attend the gymnasiale Oberstufe (Q-note) is also awarded.

Vocational primary school year

Anyone who has completed compulsory full-time schooling and obtained a secondary school leaving certificate after class 9 or 10 can be admitted to the vocational primary school year. If the final certificate shows at most an inadequate and not an unsatisfactory grade, the qualification “Basic Vocational Training” is awarded. In addition, the “Mittleren Schulprüfung (FOR)” is awarded if the subjects German / communication, English and mathematics are on average at least satisfactory and a maximum of unsatisfactory results in one of these three subjects.

One-year vocational school

Anyone who has the “Mittlere Schulprüfung (FOR)” can be admitted to the one-year vocational school. If the diploma shows at most an inadequate and not an unsatisfactory grade, the "Basic Vocational Training" qualification is awarded. If students achieve good results in German / communication, English and mathematics or satisfactory results in these and three other subjects, entitlement to attend the upper secondary level (Q-note) is acquired in addition to the “secondary school leaving certificate”.

Higher commercial school (two-year vocational school)

Anyone who has the “Mittlere Schulprüfung (FOR)” can be admitted to the lower level of the higher commercial school. With the promotion to the upper level, "Professional knowledge of level I" is certified. At the end of the course, the following qualifications can be obtained: By passing the final examination in the subjects German, mathematics and English, the school-based part of the advanced technical college entrance qualification is acquired and by passing a further examination in the subject of business administration with accounting or information science, "professional knowledge of level II" certified.

Commercial assistants (three-year vocational school)

Pupils who have completed compulsory full-time schooling and who have achieved the “Mittlere Schulabschluss (FOR)” can be admitted to the Commercial Assistant course. The vocational college for WuV offers three main areas: business administration, foreign languages ​​and information processing. The following qualifications can be obtained: a vocational qualification according to state law, ie completed school-based vocational training, as well as the full technical college entrance qualification. Under certain conditions, the foreign language commercial assistants also have the opportunity to participate in IHK exams, e.g. B. as a foreign language correspondent and as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk specializing in wholesale, as well as for the commercial assistants information processing and the commercial assistants business administration the opportunity to participate in the IHK examination to become a clerk for office communication.

Business high school

The Wirtschaftsgymnasium is open to students who have obtained the “Mittleren Bildungs ​​qualification (FORS)” and the “Authorization to attend the gymnasiale Oberstufe (qualification note)” or who have previously attended a Gymnasium and who have a transfer certificate from class 9 with the authorization to attend the Gymnasiale Oberstufe be able to show. The business high school leads to the general higher education entrance qualification, which entitles to study. The actual Abitur examination comprises a total of four subjects. Written and, if necessary, oral exams take place in the following three subjects: 1. Advanced course (German, mathematics or English), 2. Advanced course (business administration with accounting and controlling) and 3. Abitur subject (German, mathematics or English as a basic course subject). In the 4th Abitur subject there is an oral examination in a chosen basic course subject.

Technical college

Schoolchildren with professional experience who have the “Mittlere Bildungs ​​qualification (FOR)” and a vocational training or long-term professional experience can acquire the technical college entrance qualification in one year in the technical college class 12 (FOS 12 B). Upon successful completion, FOS 13 can then be visited. Schoolchildren with professional experience who have a technical college entrance qualification and vocational training or many years of professional experience can obtain the general university entrance qualification in one year in the technical college class 13 (FOS 13).

Technical college (specializing in business)

The Fachschule für Wirtschaft offers professionals who can prove a qualification in a recognized training occupation or at least five years of professional experience to complete further training to become a state-certified business economist. The vocational college for WuV currently offers the technical college for economics, specializing in business administration with a focus on human resource management. Classes take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and every 14 days on Saturdays.

Certificates

The following certificates can be obtained at the vocational college for economics and administration:

School profile

Individual support

On September 8, 2008, the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the Vocational College for WuV the seal of approval “Individual Support”.

The counseling concept aims at target-oriented school career counseling, counseling or support in the case of problems in the school, personal or domestic area of ​​the learners as well as orientation towards study and career choice.

  • Half-yearly school development talks between the class management team and each learner serve to determine the learner's position. The individual support needs of the learner are determined on the basis of their strengths and weaknesses, corresponding goals are formulated and, if necessary, a correction of the school career is made.
  • With the help of the reflection room concept, a systematic handling of disturbances in the classroom is guaranteed, which serves to increase the net teaching time as well as the detection and reduction of individual disruptive factors.
  • Participation in the “Come with me! - Support instead of staying seated "project, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Education and representatives of teacher organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Special support concepts in the basic vocational school year, commercial school and higher commercial school courses
  • Individualized promotion of spelling, grammar and punctuation through cooperation with the Gutschrift-Institut
  • Use of the Moodle e-learning platform, which offers the opportunity to work on and deepen the subject matter independently with the support of specialist teachers.

Career choice orientation

Elements of career choice support at the vocational college for business and administration are:

  • Coupling of career choice orientation to the content of the lessons
  • Internships as an essential part of preparation for a career choice
  • Personal care and individual support for the students by trained advisory teachers
  • Application training in the career orientation office
  • Projects and events (annual job market, contacts with companies, taster days at universities and universities of applied sciences, company tours).

European school

In February 2008, the vocational college for WuV was the first school in Herne to be awarded the “ European School in North Rhine-Westphalia” seal of approval due to its activities in the field of European education. The main areas of work are:

  • "We get to know Europe": study trips , student exchanges with Poland and the Czech Republic (Prague), international projects (Comenius, Leonardo, Mobinardo), school partnerships
  • Working in Europe
  • Europe days
  • Language certificates and ECDL (European Computer Driving License)
  • bilingual teaching
  • European consultation hour
  • Cooperation with extracurricular partners.

School partnerships

  • Ceskoslovanská akademie obchodní Dr. Edvarda Beneše, Prague , Czech Republic
  • I Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Adama Mickiewicza, Olsztyn , Poland
  • III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im.St Wyspiańskiego, w Tychach , Poland
  • Lycée Mézeray, Argentan , France
  • Gülkent Anadolu Lisesi, Isparta , Turkey
  • IES San Cristóbal, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain
  • EUC Nord (Erhvervsuddannelsescenter Nord), Hjørring , Denmark

Healthy school

Due to a wide range of activities in the areas of health promotion and prevention, our school was awarded the "Good Healthy School 2013" school development award in September 2013. In 2008, the vocational college for WuV was awarded the seal of “good healthy school” as part of the school development award “Good Healthy School 2008”.

The health promotion at the vocational college for WuV includes:

  • Lung / Health Day: The annual Lung Day is about the topic of smoking cessation. On Health Day, there are campaigns on the subject of health: information stands and campaigns (eye test, body fat measurement) from various health insurers, including the possibility of in-depth nutritional advice, opportunities to talk to cooperating advice centers, sporting activities (health run, fitness test, step aerobics, lung exercise), traveling exhibition by the Chamber of Pharmacists.
  • Counseling concept with advice on personal and family problems, learning and performance difficulties, questions about a school career or the threat of regulatory measures, questions about health care and addiction or addiction prevention as well as conflict management in everyday school life (collegial case advice).
  • First aid training by the German Red Cross: 42 teachers were trained as first aiders in medical emergencies.
  • Half-yearly blood donation campaign of the German Red Cross with increasing donor numbers
  • ergonomic design of the PC rooms
  • The school living space project with the aim of improving the quality of stay and quality of life in the school
  • Football, volleyball and table tennis club for schoolchildren and teachers.

School without racism - school with courage

In 2008 pupils and teachers spoke out against racism and in favor of participating in the project "School without Racism - School with Courage", which is a Europe-wide cross-school project by and for pupils who take active action against all forms of discrimination and contribute to a want to achieve a nonviolent, democratic society is.

Location and building

location

The school is located opposite the Herner train station.

Architecture and buildings

The school building of the vocational college for economics and administration (tract D and partly C) and the Emschertal vocational college (tract A, B and partly C) has been on the list of monuments of the city of Herne. The buildings were the first schools to be built between 1951 and 1955 on what was then Moltkestrasse (now Westring). This was followed by an extension in 1971 (E-wing) and the construction of the training center (W-wing), which has been used by the vocational college for WuV since 2000 during school days. The approx. 175 m long school building with its intermediate wings extends parallel to the Westring and was built on the site of the former "Germania" sports field. The school complex was embedded in a wide green zone that connected the city center with the green surrounding area. The green areas (some with a kidney-shaped floor plan) in front of and behind the school were severely trimmed with increasing motorization (expansion of Moltkestrasse into a four-lane Westring and teacher parking spaces). The building is divided into four main buildings (A to D wing) and three central wings that connect them. Representative open stairs lead to the four main buildings, which are oriented towards the Westring with glass gable ends. The small number of storeys is two storeys to the Westring, three storeys to the schoolyards. The classrooms are shielded from the nuisance of the expected volume of traffic at the time by the urban architects Kurt Hubert Vieth and Hermann Haase-Kiewning. The position of the four main buildings with their gable side facing the street also enables the area behind them to be divided into three clear schoolyards, which counteract the dimensioning. Nevertheless, the schoolyards are connected to one another by a footpath and a driveway. With the gable side of the main building facing the street, the block perimeter development of the pre-war period, which is so typical for industrial cities, was overcome and a loosened development with a lot of green between the buildings was favored. With their small windows, the central tract is reminiscent of a closed perimeter development.

The architecture impresses with its combination of modernity and tradition. The use of the building materials steel, glass and concrete, which are openly displayed, is modern. The building complex is supported and structured by a reinforced concrete skeleton, which is based on the grid as a stylistic element (grid architecture). The steel frame construction with its bricked-up compartments represents the transition from manual to industrial construction. The grid architecture finds a deliberate tension through traditionalist construction and style elements: the low-storey construction, the use of local and regional building materials such as clinker walls and natural stone as flooring in the intermediate tracts and tuff stone slabs on the facades. In the break hall of building D on the courtyard side, a snake snakes up on a column clad in glass mosaics. The meandering forms of the snake are resumed in the banister of the entire building complex.

Furnishing

The vocational college for WuV has 63 classrooms at the two locations Westring, Manteuffelstr. From the 2012/2013 school year, the Manteuffelstrasse location will be closed and further classrooms in the C wing will be taken over. The vocational college for WuV has PC workstations. Several rooms are equipped with projectors and smartboards. In the self-learning center, pupils can learn independently at PC workstations. In the career orientation office (BOB), students have the opportunity to deal with the topic of career choice orientation beyond the classroom. There are special specialist rooms for the training courses in retail sales / salesperson (goods sales room), specialist warehouse clerk or specialist for warehouse logistics (warehouse), pharmaceutical / commercial employee (pharmacy), dental assistant (dental practice). A new MINT room was set up for the subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology. Sports lessons take place in the adjacent sports halls “Westring” and “Harpener Weg”. In the cafeteria, furnished common areas are available for the students.

Support association

The development association is an association of training companies, parents and teachers who want to promote the quality of vocational education and training through financial support for school activities, among other things. The development association has around 80 members.

Web links

  • bkherne.de - official website
  • APO-BK (PDF; 1.3 MB) - Ordinance on training and examinations in the training courses of the vocational college (Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Herner Vocational College is named after the Irish Mulvany" , in: WAZ from January 12, 2015 , accessed on December 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Information on the BeKoSch project of the Arnsberg district government
  3. ↑ Information on the KMK foreign language certificate ( memento of the original from September 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schulministerium.nrw.de
  4. ↑ Information on the quality seal archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zukunftsschulen-nrw.de
  5. ↑ E. Wührl / M. Ehm / I. Perez / Y. Piwowar / / R. Zalewski: The vocational colleges at Westring 201-213