PELICAN School Regulations
General Provisions
The Company Škola Pelican is in compliance with the Education Act no. 561/2004 Coll.
PELICAN is a private company. Terms and Conditions are agreed upon with clients, at the companies’ discretion.
Requirements for collaborative work and studying at PELICAN are set out in the school’s rules, which ensures that the organisation operates within the framework of Czech educational laws, establish a teaching process and sets out the rights and obligations of students and the school.
Every student who enrols in post secondary studies during the school year, immediately following their final exams, has the right to claim ‘student status’. Student status ensures social security benefits, healthcare, insurance, tax relief and further discounts and benefits. For up-to-date information about the school, students can go to the organisation’s website or visit the school office. For resolving problems on an individual basis or obtaining more detailed information, students can contact the school office by telephone +420 725 441 935 or +420 774 742 296, by email at info@skolapelican.com, or by visiting us at the school office, which is open every day from 8.00 to 19.00.
2. Student Rights and Responsibilities
2.1. Student Obligations
Students are obligated to follow the school’s rules and its safety regulations. In the case that a student does not follow any of these, he/she runs the risk of being removed from the course with no entitlement to compensation.
Students should also familiarise themselves and keep up to date with rules on appropriate behaviour and activities, which can be found at the school office.
Students are required to follow all rules concerning behaviour and social coexistence.
Students should be respectful towards one another and clean up any dishes they have used, once they are done with them.
Students are also expected to purchase their own study materials as instructed to by the their teachers. Equally, after talking with their teachers, students may make a copy of the materials, for a fee, at the school office. In this situation the student is expected to respect the laws around author rights.
2.2. Student Rights
If a student is dissatisfied with the course, they have the right to ask for a change of teacher. Any dissatisfaction must naturally be supported with objective and specific instances and also ratified by another staff member in the form of a recorded inspection. Students can also go to staff members at the school office, who can help resolve the situation.
If a student does not understand something, they have the right to ask their teacher for an explanation. When expressing their opinion, students should be polite and courteous, so as not to disrupt the flow of teaching.
Students are allowed to use the communal areas in school during breaks, including the schools kitchen, but must remember to respect the school rules.
3. No smoking is permitted on the school premises
Students and Teachers are obligated to look after the school property, so as to avoid damaging it and ensure that both teachers and students alike are not placed in a situation which endangers their well-being. Whilst any damage caused by the student is his/her responsibility, the school will pay any costs which arise from repairing the damage.
The school is not responsible for the loss of any possessions owned by students.
When the office is not open, students are responsible for closing the school premises and preventing unauthorised visitors from accessing the site.
4. Treatment of School Property and School Equipment
Students are not permitted to tamper with school property, unless given to by a staff member (school property includes heaters, printers and copying equipment, audiovisual equipment etc…)
It is the student’s responsibility to follow their teacher’s instructions and instructions from other authorised school personnel. The student is responsible for using classroom equipment and the school’s communal spaces correctly. Damage to school property, whether deliberately or accidentally, will incur a corresponding cost.
5. Health and Safety
5.1. General Provisions
Information regarding health and safety is carried out by staff members and management at the start of the year. Health and Safety regulations are available to every student for consultation at the school office. The student accepts to comply with these rules when he/she signs the language course contract or attendance register.
Students are obligated to adhere to school rules, regulations and guidelines concerning health and safety and any instructions given to them by staff members.
5.2. General Provisions for Risk Mitigation
Students are obligated to adhere to all health and safety regulations.
Whilst on the school premises students are forbidden from smoking, drinking, possessing, distributing, selling or consuming alcoholic beverages, drugs and other substances harmful to a person’s health. In addition, any type of gun or knife, tampering with risky chemical substances or electrical appliances, is also forbidden.
5.3. Injuries to Students
A student is classified as ‘injured’ under the school regulations, when the incident takes place during lesson time or is the result of a directly related activity. Contrarily, a student is not classified as ‘injured’ when the incident occurs on the journey to and from school.
Any injury sustained whilst on the school premises must be immediately reported to a staff member. The staff member will then either help or call an ambulance. The staff member will then ensure that the accident has been dealt with and the cause of the incident has been removed.
Post Secondary Studies are categorised under ordinance 322/2005.
Teaching takes place at Lidická 9, on the school premises or at Kundelova 8 at the Secondary Technical School.
Requirements to enter this course are the following: a completed application form, which is available on the school’s website or in paper form from the school office, and payment of course fees in accordance with the current price list.
6.1. Attendance and Absence from Post-Secondary courses
On year-long post-secondary courses and other courses which include benefits to students, attendance is obligatory.
A student’s attendance is recorded. If the student is absent for more than 30% of the course, then he/she runs the risk of being removed from the course without the possibility of claiming back compensation for course fees. Immediate disqualification will mean that the student will lose his/her student status.
6.2. Organisation of the School Year
Post-secondary studies are exclusively taught face-to-face. Lessons are 4 hours long, Monday to Friday.
The school year starts on the 2nd September 2019 and ends on the 30th June 2020.
All holidays are organised in accordance with the school calendar as issued by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
Management has the right to go on administrative leave when it is for valid technical or organisational reasons.
At the beginning of the school year, students are allocated to classes according to their language level which is determined by a placement test. The student has the right to inform the course coordinator about his/her availability for lessons, however the school cannot guarantee this will be taken into account, owing to the number of classes which can be changed. Students’ preferences are taken into account last. Consequently, assignment to one particular class is not valid and any dissatisfaction incurred by this will not count as a valid reason for reimbursement of the course fees (See Chapter. 7)
6.3. Certification for Post-Secondary courses
Upon completion of the course, students will receive a certificate of completion. A student is only entitled to a certificate if she/he has a 70% attendance record.
Students are not obligated to sit their final exam for any of the post-secondary courses.
7. Conditions for Cancellation of the Course
Course fees must be paid no latter than three days before the start of the course.
Course costs do not include textbooks.
Course fees can only be reimbursed in the case of serious illness or injury which prevents the student from attending lessons over a long period of time (this must be accompanied by a doctor’s note.) In addition, course fees can be reimbursed during the application process if the student is accepted into university, which must be supported by a letter of acceptance. A student may also claim back payment of the course fees, if the respective course was not available or an agreement on moving to another course was not reached.
8. Final Provisions
The publication of these new school regulations invalidates any former school regulations. PELICAN reserves the right to perform any changes to this document. PELICAN’S school regulations come into effect on the 31.08.2019 and is valid for the duration of the 2019/20 academic year.
Signed in Brno 25 April 2019
Ratified by the school management.
