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Vocational College for Catering and Tourism Bled
HEALTH TOURISM & WELLNESS TRAINING IN
SLOVENIA
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Vocational College for Catering and Tourism Bled
Mojca JoštLibrarian / International Coordinator
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A higher professional school / short tertiary cycle
• 1995 – Phare programme for the reform of vocational education and training in Slovenia
• 1996 – legal foundation: Organization and Financing of Education Act + Vocational Education and Training Act
• 2007 : study programmes reform
• – Project ESS : basic professional standard
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Study programmes reform
Programmes are reformed according to Bologna process – short tertiary cycles:
modularity
student choice
European Credit Transfer System – 120 (ECTS)
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New study programme of WELLNESS
• The first generation in the academic year 2011-2012 (50 students)
• Graduates get a title of a „Wellness Manager“ after 2 years of study.
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Beginnings
• The first idea appeared at Maribor College (the same type of an educational school as Bled) as an international project called “WELLPRO” for wellness trainers and wellness advisers.
• The group of experts then prepared so called “professional standards” on the basis of economy needs with a cooperation with social partners.
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Beginnings
• They carried out the surveys in appropriate companies (hotels, wellness and spa centres,beauty centres, etc).
• they checked the comparability with foreign similar study programmes, and they signed letters of intend and letters of support with the local authorities as well as with the companies.
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The preparation of curriculum
• All this was then approved by the Centre of Professional Education in Ljubljana, see their site: (http://www.cpi.si/en/) and the standards were then published in the Official Gazette of Slovenia.
• On the basis of these standards the programme was then approved by the Ministry of Education and Sport of Slovenia.
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Curriculum – a short version• M1 Communication• M2 Economics and Business• M3 Wellness• M4 Marketing and Tourism• M5 Healthy Diet• M6 Physical Activities, Movement• M7 Mental Wellness• M8 Beauty and Body Care
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• 20 subjects are embedded within those 8 modules!!!!!
• 30% of the curriculum is meant for practical training; the first 100 hours are performed at Astoria school hotel in the Wellness centre.
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CurriculumM1 COMMUNICATION
P1 Business Communication and LeadershipP2 Professional terminology 1st Foreign Language
(ENG, GER)P3 Professional terminology 2nd Foreign Language (ITA, ENG, GER, FRE)D1 Practical Training: Business Communication and LeadershipM2 ECONOMICS AND BUSINESSP4 Economics and EntrepreneurshipP5 Business Information with StatisticsP6 Legal RegulationsD2 Practical Training: Economics and BusinessM3 MARKETING AND TOURISMP7 Service MarketingP8 Tourism and Destination Management - IntroductionD3 Practical Training: Tourism and Service MarketingM4 WELLNESSP9 Wellness and Business of WellnessP10 Business and Management of Wellness CentresP11 Wellness Products Design and MarketingD4 Practical Training: WellnessM5 HEALTHY DIETP12 Basics of Healthy DietP13 Culinary for VitalityD5 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and DietM6 MOVEMENT, PHYSICAL ACTIVITIESP14 Basics of Movement and Sports ActivitiesP15 Sports Animation and Personal TrainingD6 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and MovementM7 MENTAL WELLNESSP16 Emotional Intelligence and Personal GrowthP17 Stress Management and Relaxation TechniquesD7 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and Personal GrowthM8 BEAUTY AND BODY CAREP18 Principles of Beauty and Body Care and HygieneP19 Styling and Fashion MannersD8 Practical Training: Beauty and Body CareP20 Free elective subject
Graduation thesis
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Curriculum – a knowledge catalogue 1. SUBJECT
STYLING AND FASHION MANNERS
2. GENERAL GOALS
Subject’s General Goals are:
• Student knows the principles of styling and designing the outer look of a customers’ regarding different factors, and she/he is aware of own look at work with customers;
• Follows the novelties and trends in the field of styling;
• Know the principles and methods of verbal and non-verbal communication in the sense of fashion manners;
• Knows the methods of motivating an individual towards the integrated, healthy life style;
• Manages the conflict situations, co-shapes the positive climate at work place;
• Behaves according to business etiquette.
3. SPECIFIC SUBJECT COMPETENCIES
Apart from general competencies, the student gets the following specific subject competencies:
• Performs an advising interview,
• Advises style for the customer’s outer look for different occasions,
• Train customers for a proper use of behavioural patterns at business or private communication and public presentations,
• Trains customers for a proper use of body language,
• Advises how to behave in business and private situations.
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Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 1/3
• Long history of health tourism since the Roman period; modern era begins in 1960‘s
• 87 thermal sources of different kinds of waters
• 25 health & spa centres; 15 of them are natural spas
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Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 2/3
• Over 3200 employees from the field of health care, hospitality, hotel industry, economics, sport, culture
• 600 of them are professionals with the medical background (physicians, nurses, health therapists)
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Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 3/3
• 88 registered different wellness establishments from wellness hotels, beauty clinics, welness in the mountain or at the coast.
http://www.slovenia.info/?wellness=0&lng=2&redirected=1
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Health Tourism and Wellness Training 1/2
• 8 secondary medical schools in Slovenia with a three and four-year courses of nursing care and four-year courses of cosmetology
• 5 vocational colleges with a 2 year course of wellness
• 3 vocational colleges with a 2 year course of cosmetology
• NO SPA or MASSAGE THERAPIST COURSES!!!!!!!
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Health Tourism and Wellness Training 2/2
• To become a Massage Therapist / Masseuse/ Masseur/ SPA Therapist or similar, you need to obtain the National Professional Qualifications / certificate according to the NPQ Act
http://www.npk.si
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Dilemmas • You can obtain the certificate, but you needn‘t
pass the NPQ exam if it is not required by an employer.
• Vocational colleges educate in all aspects of wellness, the industry is mainly looking for beauty and body care skilled workers.
• Educating / Training?
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„Starting up wellness training“
• Gave us the experience of starting a new study programme.
• Getting the information from partners that have this training for some time already.
• Updating competencies of wellness students / trainees.
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• To acquire generic and profession-specific competencies from the field of wellness industry with the focus on managerial, organizational, business-like and communicational knowledges for the services of a physical movement and recreation, healthy nutrition, mental activities, relaxation and beauty /body care.
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Thank you for your attention.
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