Presentation

The Municipality of Sežana established the Higher Education Centre Sežana more than four years ago. This Institution provides for the development of new study curricula, ensures that post-secondary and undergraduate studies are conducted under optimum conditions, establishes conditions for scientific research work, and conditions for ensuring that students can concentrate on their studies without interruption or disturbance. The Higher Education Centre Sežana operates on the premises of the Business Innovation Centre.

In the academic year 2009/2010, there are 365 male and female students enrolled who are participating in 4 study programmes:

  • For the higher professional education degree (undergraduate study) in the field of Computer and Information Science, there are 116 male and female students, taking into account all three Years of studying;
  • For the higher education degree (undergraduate study) in the field of Business Systems in Tourism, there are 102 female and male students, taking into account the 1st and 2nd Year. The 3rd Year of this course will commence this Year in the autumn;
  • In the higher vocational programmes (post-secondary study) of Designing Materials and Photography, there are 147 male and female students in the 1st Year of both courses.

We posses: a conference hall (76 seats), a large lecture hall (70 seats), lecture rooms (64 seats each), a computer classroom (30 workstations), a photographic laboratory with a studio (34 workstations), a designing laboratory (24 workstations), a small lecture room (18 seats), a photographic darkroom and a student common room.

The studio for scenic photography is in the building of the Kras’ Cultural Centre "Kosovelov dom Sežana"; two workshops for designing stonework are located 10 metres away from the Higher Education Centre Sežana. A gymnasium is available to male and female students on Tuesday evenings. Professional literature is available at the Kosovel’s Library (Kosovelova knjižnica). The Higher Education Centre is also able to provide a Teachers’ Staff Room, the Headmaster’s Office and the Organisational Unit of the Higher Vocational College (known as Višja strokovna šola), the Cabinet of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, the Cabinet of the Faculty of Tourism Studies (Turistica), the Cabinet of the Higher Vocational College (Višja strokovna šola), the Laboratory for Geomagnetism and Aeronomy and rooms for its own operations.

You can get from the Higher Education Centre Sežana to the Bus or Rail Station in 5 minutes by foot. The exit from the highway is only about a hundred metres from the Higher Education Centre Sežana. In front of it, there is a large car park. The Higher Education Centre Sežana is obliged to provide meals: inside its building there is a restaurant (the ‘Spark’), and 500 m further on there is another restaurant in the Spar shopping mall. You can get a meal in both of them for students’ meal vouchers.

You are invited to read the brochure (in Slovene).