Teaching at the Faculty of Education conforms to the requirements of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and offers, under certain conditions, opportunities for the exchange of students between universities within the European Union.
The basic requirement under ECTS is that students should collect a minimum of 30 credits per semester (60 credits per academic year).
To be awarded a Bachelor’s degree, students should collect a minimum of 240 credits.
Since the academic year 2008/2009 in the Faculty of Education a new B.A. program in Non-formal Education is opening. It is aimed to prepare higher educated personnel for the needs of the intensive developing extra curriculum and alternative educational services for children and adults, offered by specialized public, private and nonprofit organizations outside the official (formal) educational system. During their study students obtain (1) general humanitarian, social and organizational competences, (2) solid fundamental, specialized and practice oriented training for educational work with children, youths and adults in non-formal, alternative educational milieu; (3) complex preparation for working in a wide number of educational institutions for extra curriculum and continuing education, free time studies, consultation and mediation in searching and choosing educational services etc.
After mastering the basic skills and knowledge students, in accordance with their interests and professional plans, can determinate their own professional profile by choosing among following modules and sub-modules:
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Consultation and mediation in the area of non-formal education;
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Organization of educational services and activities;
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European educational network;
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Educational activities in the community.
Depending of their professional specialization graduate students acquire qualification respectively as (1) lecturer, consultant and mediator in the area of non-formal education, or (2) lecturer and administrator of educational services and activities. They can work as educational services administrators in public, private and non-government organization, experts in European educational institutions and networks for non-formal education, as self-employed consultants of vocational and educational orientation and career development, as adult education specialists, experts in the centers for continuing vocational training and qualification of educational staff etc.