The Complex of Economics School is a vocational school located in the city of Czestochowa, in the south of Poland. Its students, aged between 16 and 20 years, carry out the basics of starting a business; learning about the functioning of the market; enterprises, sales, purchase, financial management; legal and tax issues, accounting, statistics and other economic related subjects.
 

Although the school is located in big city the majority of the students come from rural areas. Some of them are at risk of social exclusion due to the high rate of unemployment in the villages they live in.

The school co-operates with a number of local employers, banks, tax offices, small business, ensuring apprenticeship placements for its students. Over recent years, the school has been developing co-operation with partners from outside Poland, including the teacher exchange project and apprenticeship placements through Leonardo da Vinci programme.

The School appreciates the importance of vocational counselor's assistance employing a career guidance specialist whose main goal is to offer young people opportunities to acquire skills in active and flexible planning of their career development, acquiring knowledge and skills needed in the transition from education to the labour market, finding jobs or starting their own business.
 

The participation in the Partnership Project helps the trainers / career guidance specialist to offer better services to students, thanks to the improved knowledge and skills needed to work in the transition from education to the labour market. The project helps school youth, school leavers, some youth threatened with marginalization and social exclusion to take the right decisions in their career development and career planning.
 
Useful internet sites about guidance in Poland:

www.men.gov.pl
http://isap.sejm.gov.pl
www.reformaprogramowa.men.gov.pl

Contact person

Jolanta Wojcikiewicz  
Tel. 0048 34 3666036
E-mail: tajm6@wp.pl