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Präha Educational Institutes in Germany What people need is an eventful job, success and personal development - and they need these things throughout their entire life. The services sector - especially health care - is a market segment with an enormous growth rate. "Präha" is a synonym for prevention and rehabilitation. We are offering an increasing range of qualified training opportunities and further training courses. Special seminar modules complement our training courses. We are happy to help you find the training method best suited to you, to advise you about promotion funds available and to arrange contact with potential employers. At our educational institutions, you may achieve multiple qualifications during vocational training or during our preparatory courses, while simultaneously getting your entrance qualification for studies at a university of applied sciences. Our non-profit making institution does guarantee direct and exclusive utilisation of all funds available for the promotion of your training. All our institutions cooperate with hospitals, medical practices, studios, rehabilitation centres, wellness spas and others and thus play an important role in ensuring a practice-oriented training quality. Furthermore, they provide contacts between employers and potential employees. In this way, market requirements and trends are easier distinguishable to the educational institute, so that further modules can be developed and offered if need be. Our graduates are very much in demand, because
The Future of Learning Since autumn 2002, the Präha Educational Center Horrem for health care professions in Kerpen has been offering a double-qualification for physiotherapists. During this training, the German technical college education of "Certified Physiotherapist" is combined with a Dutch university degree of "Bachelor of Physiotherapy, NL".
In order to render this coupling possible, the Dutch and the German training concepts had to be checked for common elements and the persons in charge had to ensure that the learning contents meet both Dutch and German requirements. The teaching method used is the principle of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) which is commonly used in the Netherlands. This means self-supported and discovering learning, measure-oriented teaching, cross-subject learning and self-evaluation. The students learn to analyse a topic or a question, to search for literature, to evaluate such literature and finally compare, select and convert solutions. During these les-sons, the teacher plays the role of a tutor. The teaching staff expect more initiative and thus more self-controlled learning from the students. The practical training units containing the physiotherapist methods are directly oriented on the topic of the theoretical classes given by the teachers. Thus, at the same time, this type of training is a preparation for a subsequent employment of the students, where problems have to be solved frequently and where the physiotherapists work in teams. May I Invite You to Europe? Since Bologna the European borders have been more open than ever. Now the dream of a united Europe can also be felt more intensely in the "teaching country". To the field of physiotherapy Bologna means a long way to the European Community which has ever since been characterised by large differences. When comparing Germany and the Netherlands as neighbours in Europe, you will find out that in Germany the apprenticeship takes three years and is based on an official and quite rigid law of vocational training. In the Netherlands, the professional aim "physiotherapist" is taught as a four-year course of studies on the level of a university of applied sciences in the form of a bachelor's degree.
After having become aware of the differences, we have found new possibilities. One form is the already applied "one plus three" training for students to be a physiotherapist. Physiotherapists who have passed the exam according to German law add one year in the Netherlands to acquire their bachelor's degree. However, I can only call this "lapwerk" in Dutch (a patch-up job). Is there something better? Yes, there is! The training offered in co-operation between the Hogeschool Zuyd and the Präha Educational Center is fundamentally different. Right from the beginning, the curriculum has been adjusted to both countries. Besides that, the student is no longer confronted with individual subjects, but will gather his knowledge according to the method of problem-based learning instead (case-oriented). This didactic state-of-the-art programme has been judged to be excellent by experts under the lead of professor Rob Oostendorp, who holds a physiotherapy chair at the Catholic University of Nimwegen. It could be demonstrated that the students learn more actively and have won prizes with their dissertations submitted for their diplomas during recent years. In order to refine the job profile for physiotherapists on a European Bachelor level, we will have to begin in the very first year of apprenticeship. By offering a specific programme, the Hogeschool Zuyd makes a cross-border contribution to the physio-European unification and to the quality improvement within the physiotherapist's training. This is what I would like to get people interested in. And Präha should be the organisation to win new partners for our programme.
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What is special about that: The Dutch co-operation partner, Hogeschool Zuyd in Heerlen, fully recognises the three-year German apprenticeship, so that the students only need another year of studies to acquire the bachelor degree. Furthermore, the students have the opportunity to acquire the Master degree after another 18 months.
As far as the contents of this course is concerned, there are almost no regulations on the part of the government to be observed by the universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen). There are excellent links to universities, which means that a master degree can still be acquired after-wards. Can the differences be larger?
