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Since 1955, the handcraft schools represent a stable, viable educational system adjusted to labor market demands, to the requirements of the market economy, as well as to the challenges and preferences of the students.
Currently, the arts and crafts cooperative educational system, a successor of the highly appreciated arts and crafts schools from the interwar period from Romania, due to the acquired experience and to a tradition of almost 50 years in training field, is ready to offer an attractive and various range of professional trade qualifications, covering the necessary qualified personnel of the small and medium companies, of the representative units for the services area important areas formed of Romanian middle class society.
The Arts and Crafts Cooperative's Primary and Secondary Educational System is represented by 12 Educational Centers, called “arts and crafts”, bearing the name of the great reformer Spiru Haret. These centers exist in the following cities: Arad, Baia Mare, Braila, Breaza, Bucuresti, Cluj, Craiova, Constanta, Iasi, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Ploiesti and Timisoara.
These educational centers are coordinated by the branches of “Spiru Haret” Arts and Crafts Cooperative's Primary and Secondary Educational System Foundation, legal person of private law, without any lucrative or patrimonial purpose, of cooperative interest, non-governmental and non-political.
The educational units could meet the requirements of various social and economical life spectrums. They proved flexibility regarding the educational process orientation according to these requirements. Therefore, they are properly equipped, in conformity with the educational standards, namely: classrooms, theoretical labs, practical labs, workshops, dorms with places, libraries, sports rooms and sports fields.
The personnel from the schools is formed of over 256 teachers trained in general and technical educational field, foremen trainers, as well as 142 persons representing the administrative and auxiliary staff.
The educational institutions of the arts and crafts cooperatives are training around 5.500 pupils in different trades, specializations and professional qualifications through: Arts and Crafts Center, Vocational School, High School, Post Secondary School and Foremen School. The professional qualifications are to be found within “The classified lists with the professional qualifications, assuring training during the primary and secondary school period”, in conformity with the Government Decree no. 533 / May 30, 2007.
The present guide includes trades, specializations and professional qualifications specific to every educational institution.
We should mention that a part of these trades, specific to the vocational educational system, have appeared and have been taught, years in a road, exclusively by the vocational schools within the cooperative system, e.g.: jeweler, watchmaker, optician, optical and mechanical equipment assembler, hairdresser manicurist pedicurist, cosmetician and others.
Beside these traditional training courses, the teaching activity within schools (equipments, projects, programs) has been adjusted to the new requirements of the offer and demand competitive market, providing the necessary conditions for fields like: optometry, mechatronics, telemetry, etc.
The training is following the dual system, namely combining the theoretical and the practical preparation developed within arts and crafts cooperative organizations and other companies.
The educational system is being developed according to curriculums and syllabuses approved by the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth.
In conformity with the Educational Law no 84/1995, the private educational system has been approved, including its own methods of organization, operation and financing. Consequently, the vocational schools within the cooperative system benefit of training accreditation. The 12 educational units within the Arts and Crafts Cooperatives have gone through the first step of this process in 1999, when they have obtained the preliminary accreditation regarding their trades, specializations and major fields. Subsequently, the schools have been reassessed, receiving preliminary accreditations for other trades and specializations.
These schools are financed through school fees, according to the educational agreements concluded with the cooperative organizations or other companies, educational micro-production, service provisions, partnerships, sponsorships, etc.
Each institution shall designate its own counselor within the teaching staff. He is bind to organize school and extracurricular activities and to coordinate the activity of the Public Image Counsel. The role of this counsel is to promote school tenders, the relations between the educational centers and the local community representatives in order to monitor the professional integration of the graduates.
The schools have participated to various community programs, like: PHARE, SOCRATES, COMENIUS (educational field), LEORNARDO DA VINCI (training field), projects that are financed by the European Union. Those from Bucharest and Ploiesti have already benefited from donations granted by the Tradesmen Chamber from Koblenz and financed by the German Government.
Since 1996, there have been organized training and retraining courses necessary to the craft and arts cooperative system.
In order to accomplish this objective, there have been founded Training and Retraining Centres intended to people that have been benefiting from the educational input, the teaching staff and experts' experience within the cooperative organisations. These types of centres have annually trained around 5.000 of people, in conformity with the accreditations granted by the competent departments, issuing certificates nationally recognized. Therefore, according to the new provisions of the Arts and Crafts Cooperatives and of the Romanian educational system that are putting into order the Romanian training market, they are taking the necessary steps in order obtain the appropriate training accreditations.