Secondary School for Secretaries
and Administrative Workers
Tel: 01/ 231 71 67
Fax: 01/ 431 50 55
 

 

About the school


 
 

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Economics assistant

Business operations

Educational programme:

ECONOMICS ASSISTANT

 

Acquired qualification:

ECONOMICS ASSISTANT

 

Duration of schooling: 

4 YEARS

 

 

BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE

 OPTIONAL FIELD

 

The school provides two educational programmes: ECONOMICS ASSISTANT and BUSINESS OPERATIONS.

ECONOMICS ASSISTANT is a new programme in Slovenian secondary education. It combines the best features of the three so far existing programmes: secretarial and administrative assistant, economics - commercial assistant, and assistant for postal services and telecommunications

The new programme makes it possible for students to acquire a modern education and therefore get more prospects for employment in service as well as manufacturing companies, various institutions and the civil service. You can become a secretary, a business secretary, a bookkeeper, a sales commercialist, a commercial traveller, a sales representative. You can find a job in a finance department, or be in charge of sales and purchases, or customers' complaints. In addition, you can work as a bank clerk, cashier, money changer etc.


Within the programme ECONOMICS ASSISTANT, you can choose among four professional fields. They all have the same syllabus, and OPTIONAL FIELD they differ only in two optional subjects and orientation of practical classes and training.

 

Choosing a particular field means choosing a particular school. Every school will specialise in its own professional field.

In the Ljubljana region, our school is the only one specialised in BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION, which means we provide all the required knowledge of ECONOMICS ASSISTANT. Besides that, we will train you to perform administrative duties in civil services (community and state institutions) as well as economic branches. You will be able to handle office equipment and information tools efficiently, and accomplish simple secretarial tasks as well as more complicated ones: making appointments, making arrangements for business meetings, taking minutes, sending memos, handling formal / business correspondence, registering and filing, keeping personnel and financial records etc. You will learn various office skills such as touch-typing, using PCs and word processing. And there are so many other things!

The requirement to complete this programme is a Vocational Matura examination, which consists of:


A: Obligatory part:
- Slovenian Language and Literature (written and oral exam)
- Economic Business Skills (oral exam)

B: Optional part:
- The first foreign language or Mathematics (written and oral exam)
- A seminar project in Accountancy, Administrative Business, Economics or

   Law (your choice)