Basic information about centre

The Centre of Continuing Education was established in 1994, as a special President’s department at the Technical University of Liberec. The centre is one of four Phare Centres in the Czech Republic, i.e. centres that have both technical and personal equipment on such a level that they can be connected to European network of open and distance learning. In this time we have 7 full-time employees.

The main objectives of the centre are to:

  • Develop activities of the lifelong education for tutors and pedagogues of primary and secondary schools
  • Co-ordinate and organize continuing education courses for university graduates of TU of Liberec
  • Provide continuing education courses according to requirements of technical faculties
  • Provide information and methodologies of lifelong education for pedagogues

At this moment the centre offers continuing education courses for 700 students.

Courses organized for the Faculty of Education in TU of Liberec:

  • Four-semester course of school management
  • Course of pedagogical preparation for secondary school teachers
  • Course of pedagogical preparation for vocational supervisors and practice teachers
  • Course of pedagogical preparation for tutors and pedagogues of leisure time
  • Four-semester course of special pedagogy
  • Course for school counsellors
  • Course of welfare service quality management
  • Specialized course for personal assistants and employees of institutes of welfare services and children’s hospices
  • Four-semester course of school psychology

Courses organized for the Faculty of Textile Engineering in TU of Liberec:

  • Textile business
  • Course of manager’s psychology

University of the Third Age
The Centre of Continuing Education introduced a study at the University of the Third Age. The courses are aimed at citizens over 50 years of age. Each student can choose their own study scheme according to an offer of one or more-semestrial courses of any of the departments at TUL. The courses are as follow:

More-semestrial courses:

  • Psychology
  • English
  • German for beginners
  • Communication and social development
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Theatre and music
  • Rhetoric
  • History of clothing culture
  • European Union
  • Czech history after 1945
  • Traditional technologies of clothes’ manifacturing and processing

One-semester courses and seminars:

  • Selection from C. G. Jung psychology
  • Psychodiagnosis
  • Theory and practice of bridge
  • PCs for beginners and intermediate
  • Kinetic exercise for seniors
  • Digital photography
  • Cultural history
  • Introduction in multimedia technology

Since February 2007 until July 2008 we have been preparing one-semester courses focused on problems of adult education at secondary and vocational schools and one two-semester course of manager’s psychology. Courses are supported from European Social Fund and state or regional Budget of Czech republic.

Technical and Personal Equipment of the Centre
The Centre of Continuing Education residues at the building B of University residence Harcov, 17 listopadu.

In 1998 the reconstruction of non-used University rooms was done for distance education purposes, including a study room and a multimedia classroom. The equipment was financed from Phare means and was innovated from subvention of Ministry of Education in 2005. A new multimedia classroom enables implementing of multimedia to our distance education activities.

Personnel of the Centre:
Director: Eva Dvořáková (eva.dvorakova@tul.cz)
Management and Consultations:
Jitka Pacltová
Šárka Doubravová
Marie Židů
Special Counselling Centre: Libor Novosad
Secretaries: Libuše Ryšánková