Swiss center for middle school
The Swiss Center for Middle Schools (ZEM CES) was formed on January 1, 2017 by renaming the Swiss Central Office for the Further Education of Middle School Teachers (WBZ CPS). It is an institution of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Education Directors EDK. ZEM CES operates across cantons and language regions. It provides information and specialists for further training for its stakeholder groups and makes a contribution to the development of upper secondary level .
assignment
The order is based on two core tasks:
- Broker : This service has existed since 2012. As part of the “information and knowledge broker ” function, school administrators and teachers can request the placement of specialists or information on further training. After a needs assessment, the topic is narrowed down and suitable specialists are found.
- Competence center for middle schools general tasks of imparting skills
- Coordination Assignment to coordinate and analyze the further education offer for teachers at grammar schools and technical secondary schools as well as for teachers with additional functions at upper secondary level.
Sponsorship and funding
The Swiss Center for Middle Schools is an institution of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Education . As the sponsor, it concludes a service contract with ZEM CES. The federal government, as a further sponsor, concludes an identical service mandate through the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.
The WBZ CPS is financed one third each by the EDK and the federal government ( State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI). The last third is generated from our own work.
Stakeholders and partners
- School administrators and teachers (with additional functions) from grammar schools, technical secondary schools and vocational schools
- Education authorities and administrations of the cantons and the federal government
- Partners at the universities (universities of teacher education / Federal University Institute for Vocational Education and Training / university institutes)
- Partner abroad (e.g. Council of Europe )
history
The establishment of the institution was decided on May 2, 1968 as the Swiss central office for the professional development of secondary school teachers by the Conference of Cantonal Education Directors. The central office in Lucerne started operations on September 1, 1969. The first director of the central office was Fritz Egger, dipl. Physicist ETH and teacher at the Cantonal Gymnasium in Neuchâtel.
In the first business year, 19 advanced training courses were held with a total of 800 participants. The courses were initially organized by the boards of the professional associations of the Association of Swiss Gymnasium Teachers VSG . By 1978, the number of advanced training courses offered increased fourfold to 65. Currently, around 75 courses are offered annually with over a thousand participants.
In June 2008 the WBZ CPS moved from Lucerne to Bern to the House of the Cantons .
Web links
- Center for middle school
- Swiss Education Directors Conference EDK
- State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renaming on January 1, 2017
- ↑ Information and knowledge broker on zemces.ch
- ↑ Competence Center for Middle Schools on zemces.ch
- ↑ Coordination of further training on zemces.ch
- ↑ Numbers and facts
- ↑ Further education center (1969). Annual report 1969. Training center: Lucerne.
- ^ Armand, Claude (1997). Swiss central office for the advanced training of secondary school teachers WBZ. In: Badertscher, Hans (ed.), The EDK as an instrument of cooperation in educational federalism since 1968. Bern: Haupt.
- ^ In: Schweizerische Weiterbildungszentrale (2013). Annual report 2012.
- ↑ In: Schweizerische Weiterbildungszentrale (2009). 2008 annual report.