FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THOMAS BATA, ZLIN

Zlín is one of the towns, and of right, that has the possibility to prepare university educated specialists. The developed leather, footwear, rubber and plastics industries made it necessary to establish at Zlín a technological faculty, which is a part of one of the oldest universities in Europe, Technical University in Brno.
The Faculty with its nearly thirty year's history has become an integral and unseparable part of the town. During this period, it has provided university education to about 3 thousand students.
At the present time, the Faculty of Technology is a top educational institution providing university education in selected technological and economic fields. The technological branch of study includes technology of leather, plastics and rubber as well as footwear and leather fancy goods manufacture.
The Faculty is active not only in the Zlín region but has also established contacts with similar institutions abroad. The Faculty's educational goal is preparation of specialists in rubber, plastics and leather processing, ecology, economy and management possessing Bachelor of Science, Graduate Chemical Engineer and Ph.D. degrees.

CONTACT:
Faculty of Technology, Zlín
Doc.Ing. Josef Šimoník, CSc. - Dekan
nám. T.G. Masaryka 275, 762 72 Zlín
Tel: 420/576/031 111 - Fax: 420/577/210 722

Strední odborná škola, Strední odborné ucilište a Ucilište Zlín, s.r.o., ISMS
(SECONDARY SHOE-MAKING APPRENTICE TRAINING SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MODERN SHOE-MAKING - ISMS)

The Secondary Shoe-Making Apprentice Training School (SOU) is an educational institution with a long tradition in education and training of skilled workers for the shoe-making industry. It is a direct successor to Bata´s School of Labour, which originated in Zlín in 1925. Its main purpose is to educate and train qualified workers and technicians on the basis of a principle combining theory with practical work.
Since 1993, also the International School of Modern Shoe-Making (ISMS) has been a part of the Secondary Shoe-Making Apprentice Training School. ISMS aims at providing education to those from abroad who wish to build their career in the footwear industry. It is an intensive three month course including practical training. The course is held in the Czech and English languages.
The school offers also a short-term course for shoe designers. Further it prepares workers for tannery, engineering, garment making and building industries.

CONTACT:
Secondary Shoe-Making Apprentice Training School, a.s. Svit, Zlín - SOU
International School of Modern Shoe-Making - ISMS
Mgr. Marta Fojtíková - Director
nám. T. G. Masaryka 1279, 760 01 Zlín
Tel/Fax: 420/577/211 388
E-mail:sou-isms@iqnet.cz

Strední prumyslová škola kožarská, Zlín (SECONDARY TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR LEATHER PROCESSING INDUSTRIES, Zlín)

The beginnings of this school date back to the year 1925 when the Bata apprentice training school known as the Bata School of Labour was founded. Since the Bata Shoe Company, developing very rapidly, had an urgent need of skilled technicians, a technical school was established at Zlín in 1937 comprising, besides the shoe-making, also electrical enginnering, building, chemistry, knitting and tanning fields of study. The school had a three-degree system of extension courses which ensured a perfect selection of students. Later on, the above fields of study separated from the school to form independent secondary vocational schools (chemical, tanning, mechanical engineering and building). In 1950, four-year study was introduced and the school moved into the building of the former Study Institute where it has been located ever since. In 1961, the original name of the school was changed to the Secondary Technical School for Leather Processing Industries which has remained unchanged till now. The great merit of this school has been its close link with practice which required students to to work in special students´ workshops every day. Even today, the students practise in workshops of manufacturing plants and those of the school.

CONTACT:
Strední prumyslová škola kožarská, Dipl.-Ing. Václav Talaš - Director
nám. TGM 2734, 760 01 Zlín
Tel: 420/577/210 215 - Tel/Fax: 420/577/430 081
E-mail:spskoz@zlinedu.cz

Strední prumyslová škola, Otrokovice (SECONDARY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Otrokovice)

The technical college, founded by the Bata Shoe Company in 1933, had been a school providing education through a single branch of study. It prepared technicians for the tanning industry in the field of Chemical Technology of Leather until 1992 when another branch of study, namely that of Chemical Technology - Environment Protection, was added to the existing one. The major subjects taught are as follows: chemical technology, waste treatment, analytical chemistry and economics. Students coming from the entire Moravia as well as some places of Bohemia study at this school. At present, the number of students is about 200.
In the field of Chemical Technology of Hides the study encompasses not only the technology of leather and fur production but also tannery waste treatment, including solid waste and waste water treatment, and monitoring and assessment of quality of both raw-materials and products.
The school is equipped very well, the old laboratory instruments have been replaced by more modern ones meeting the current requirements. The school has been connected to the Internet for several years. The students also participate in the international ecological programme called "Globe". Within this programme the school has been selected by the programme centre in Washington to provide a feedback to it and to enable further improvement of the project.

CONTACT:
Strední prumyslová škola - Dipl.-Ing. Jaroslava Odstrcilová - Headmaster Deputy
tr. T. Bati 324, 765 02 Otrokovice
Tel/Fax: 420/577/925 113
E-mail:odstrcilovaj@spsotr.zlinedu.cz