Summary

The Secondary School of Electrical Engineering V Uzlabine 320, Praha 10, is located in a peaceful green part of Prague. It is a modern secondary technical school that offers perspective professional training and education focused on computer technology, electronics, information technology and automation besides a general secondary education. More than six hundred students attend this school in twenty-four classes. It is a daily four-year study for pupils that completed primary school. The school is state-run with free study concluded by a graduation exam consisting of five A-level subjects. Every year six new first-year classes of thirty students are open in four professional branches.

Students in automation technology specialization learn use of computers in automation and control systems. They become familiar with modern basic control processors. Electronic computer systems specialization is aimed at the group of Intel x86 microprocessors. The students obtain information about operational systems and can pass exams for the international ECDL license. In every form one class of this branch is a sports class with emphasis on football. These classes are registered in the system of youth sports centres. At the branch of information technology ( IT ) students obtain knowledge of hardware and the first principles of computer operation. They learn to create computer network projects and make up and service LAN computer networks. The last branch of studies, a technical lycée, is more shifted to high school education, its aim being to prepare students for technical university studies, however, it is accompanied by engineering professional education of good quality at the computer technology classes level.

Since 1984, when the school was founded, more than twenty laboratories and special classrooms equipped with namely measurements devices and computers has been built. Students have more than 150 computers at their disposal. Nearly all of them are linked in the school network and they are innovated every year. In adition students have free access to the Internet in computer laboratories and in the study hall connected to the library. Special classrooms of microprocessors and electrical measurements, the multimedia classroom, practical skills classrooms called workshops and the laboratory of physics and chemistry give a good background for successful proficiency of difficult curricula. At this school, English or German are compulsory to study except of the lycée students who study both. Learning is going on in language laboratories equipped with audio and videos. Students also have regularly an opportunity to go abroad to the countries of the language they study – Great Britain, Austria or they can complete an outdoors language course.

The school is taking part in the international project Comenius, which aims to improve schools cooperation. Thanks to this project a number of students have penfriends in EU countries. The topic they deal with is: The improvement of student awareness of the environmental protection problems, of waste liquidation and recyclation at school, in the country and in Europe. The project is also focused on learning-handicaped students. All the documentation is worked out in English. Coordination meetings are organized at one of partner schools two times a year and students and teachers take an active part in them. The next meeting is going to convene at our school.

The school also supports sports activities of students. Skiing, boating and cycling courses are very popular among students and a special sporting day at the end of the school year has become a tradition. In the school building there are two gymnasiums and the fittness center and there are outdoor sports premises with a grass football field as well. Students can enrol on various sports, language or professional clubs after lessons.

Talks, discussions, lectures, visits to theatres, concerts and exhibitions are included in the schedule. We regularly organize culture days, when students visit Prague sights. The young theatre-viewer club works at the school. Every student gets his or her locker at the cloakroom to store things. One of school facilities is a school canteen where warm meals are provided and served at lunchtime. Students living outside Prague can stay in a hall of residence.

Our graduates have electrical and computer engineering education and they can apply for a wide range of jobs. They can work as technicians, computer network administrators, programmers, design office or DTP studies workers, service or training technicians or as electronics and computer shop-assistants. They are able to use their knowledge for automation design engineering, in the industry and other technical-administrative branches. However, most of the students enrol on universities. The Czech Technical University, University of Economics or the Czech Agriculture University are much in demand among our graduates.