Who we are

Der Ravensberg
Berufliche Schule und Abendgymnasium
(Vocational Training School and Night school)

( Imitation is a kind of slavery – but education and development is life and freedom )
Leopold von Ranke

Preface
General statements
‘The Ravensberg’ is a training centre offering education for students living in Kiel and surrounding as well as for those living in parts of Schleswig-Holstein or even in other parts of Germany.
Classes take place from Monday to Friday, daily from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The cooperation between ‘The Ravensberg’ and other institutions for further education are to be intensified. The most important partner of the ‘Landesberufsschulen’ is the ‘Photo+Medienforum Kiel’.The school focuses on a good connection to ‘WasserturmRavensberg Verwaltung GmbH’ and to the future Baltic Sea Forum.

‘The Ravensberg’ is involved in the project “ development of Vocational Training Colleges to Regional Training Centres (RBZ)”.
The project aims at a far-reaching teaching development in connection with the development of organization and personnel management whereby a lot of responsibility is to be taken over by all participants and all parts of the training centre.
This high degree in self-regulation increases potentials as well as the satisfaction of staff, students, parents and partners of the dual system. Living and learning together
Is the motto of “The Ravensberg’s” training offers in order to increase quality and attractiveness.
Due to many future potentials and the close links to other schools and the University ‘The Ravensberg’ is a highly future-compliant institution in terms of educational policy both for the state capital Kiel as well as for the K.E.R.N. area.

‘The Ravensberg’ is a European School since 23^rd March 2003.

History and Buildings of ‘The Ravensberg’

• The school was founded in 1878 as a business school.
• The city of Kiel got responsible for the so called ‘City’s Business Educational Establishment’ in 1922.
• Nowadays ‘The Ravensberg’ consists of three buildings.
  In 1963 the historical monument at ‘Ravensberg, Rankestraße’ was offered for educational purposes. In 1978 another building was linked to this school. It was the former ‘Elsa-Brändström Schule’. One year later another vocational training school, located at ‘Feldstraße’, was incorporated into ‘ The Ravensberg ‘.

• This school wants to encourage all pupils to progress successfully to a career or further education.
• Our school wants to bring pupils into contact with prospective employers.
• We want to broaden young people’s general and business knowledge.
• Students will be given the opportunity to develop their key skills in communication and cooperation with help of a variety of teaching methods during the lessons.
• We want our students to become independent self-reliant people who can take an initiative, make decisions and carry them out.
• We are building teams of students and teachers.
• The school’s programmes focus on social, personal and specialised competences that are highly valued by employers and universities.
• Our school creates an open, flexible and stimulating approach to learning.
• The school’s teaching staff are well-qualified both academically and commercially.
• Our school provides an encouraging learning environment and modern technical equipment.

• articled clerks for lawyers,
• articled clerks for tax consultants,
• administration employees.
• Heads of Department: Mr Kuszinna, Mr Minnemann and Mr Heinrichs.

• qualified retailers in the fields of jewelry and photo,
• photographers and
• laboratory technicians.
• Heads of Department: Mr Leppin.

• Head of Department: Mr Fechner
• This sector requires graduats of secondary general schools who passed their school leaving certificate ( Hauptschulabschluss).
• After two years these students can obtain their intermediate secondary school leaving certificate , comparable with the British GCSE’s ( Mittlere Reife).

• Head of Department: Mr Schönwälder (Schoenwaelder)
• This sector requires graduation from intermediate secondary school.
• After two years these students can obtain their specialised college entrance certificate ( Fachhochschulreife) together with a commercial certificate.

• Head of Department: Mrs Homeyer
• This sector requires graduation from intermediate secondary school.
• After two years these students can get their specialised college entrance certificate ( Fachhochschulreife ).
• After three years they have to pass their final examination in order to obtain their matriculation that is to say their general college entrance certificate, comparable with the British A-level. In Germany it is called ‘Abitur’. It is the entrance exam for university.

• Head of Department: Mr Liewert
• It offers people a chance to earn school-leaving certificates later in life. Qualified adults who work during the day can take coursework at an evening grammar school to prepare for the matriculation (Abitur).

4. Bodies with reference to Funding

Municipalities of Kiel :
1. Vocational Training School ( law and administration)
2. Full-time Vocational Training College (BFS I) Business
3. Full-time Vocational Training College (BFS III) Business; for commercial assistants.
4. Business Grammar School

Registered society of the Federal Vocational College (LBS): Federal Vocational
Training College (photographic trade and jewelry).

V. Facilities and recources

Rankestraße
In addition to the gymnasium on the campus, there are also other gyms available nearby. The school owns 2 physics labs,1 language lab, 6 rooms are fitted with PC’s which are all connected with the Internet, whereby two of these rooms are teaching offices which can be used in many different ways. The students have access to 130 computers .

Feldstraße
Two studios, 5 development labs, 2 special rooms for digital image processing, 2 rooms for adaption, 1 mini lab and one computer suite.


VI. Partnerships

With: Silkeborg Handelsskole (Denmark)
Konsumentföreningen Stockholms Gymnasium (Sweden)

Comenius program: Handelslehranstalt Flensburg (D), Sonderorg Handelsskole (DK),Rijn-Ijssel College (NL), Skola mezinarodnich a verejnych vztahu Praha (CZ)
This project focuses mainly on the ‚Berufsfachschule III für kaufmännische Assistenten und –Assistentinnen’. Its aim is to develop modules in order to improve Eurpean competences of our students.

Bertelsmann-network of innovative schools.

SINETplus with HLA Flensburg, KBS Schleswig, Walther-Lehmkuhl-Schule Neumünster, KBS Plön.




VII. Contact us at:


The Ravensberg
Berufliche Schule und Abendgymnasium
Vocational Training College and Night School

Rankestraße 2
24118 Kiel
Germany

Website: http://www.bsravensberg-kiel.de
E-mail : postmaster@bsravensberg-kiel.de
Tel.: +49 431 89598-0
Fax.+49 431 81742


 Principal: Wulf Wersig
The Ravensberg is conveniently located in the centre of Kiel.
The bus route 91 runs to the school –nearest bus stop: Rankestraße.