About the PPC

To whom it may concern

Our school

The Peter-Paul-Cahensly-Schule (abbr: PPC) is a vocational school focussing on economic subjects.Right now approximately 1600 students are attending the school. They are taught by 143 teachers of whom about 100 form the school´s own staff. The other teachers belong to a neighboring vocational school focussing on technical subjects.

Our school offers a wide range of vocational education and training in part time and full time departments.

Students´ numbers split here evenly: 50 per cent of them attend part time courses and 50 per cent engage in full time education.

The school´s biggest department concerning the number of students and the number of classes is the one offering part time education that means for most of the students training on the job for three days a week and theoretical training at school for two days a week, for those who take a training as bank officials it means six weeks alternating training in a bank and at school.

School branch	qualifications
Part time department offers training for job qualifications (part time training): - Office assistants - Shop assistants - Assistants in retail and wholesale trade - Assistants for management in industrial business - Legal assistants - Paralegals - Assistants for tax accounting - Assistants for store logistics - Bank officials	job qualifications (part time training)
Full time department low level: One-year vocational training including general subjects	Low level jobs
Full time department intermediate level: One-year vocational training including general subjects Two-year vocational training including general subjects	vocational orientation more specialized jobs, qualifications for secondary level full time school branches
Full time department secondary level: Vocational high school focussing on - Economics - Electrical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Information Management and general subjects as well	qualifications for highly specialized jobs and university entry exam
Full time department job training at school: - Foreign language secretaries - Office Assistants	job qualifications (full time training)

The PPC´s school board consists of the principal, the vice principal, her back up, four heads of department, the person in charge of the courses in office work training and the administrative director.

As we think that mastering foreign languages is especially important for job qualifications we have established twinning and exchange programs with schools in the USA, France, Spain and Poland.

Concerning school development we work together with schools in Austria, Estonia and Lithuania. In this respect we are the only vocational school in Hesse being honored with a label “for supporting highly gifted students” by our federal secretary of education.

In addition, in 2005 the school even got a prize for innovation by Hesse´s leading enterprises

Finally, all our activities have led us to the decision to participate in Hesse´s most prominent project on the school sector: the creation of vast educational units aimed at achieving their administrative and financial independence.

Contact:

Frau StD´in Dr. Ulla-Carina Reitz (vice principal)

Zeppelinstr. 39

65549 Limburg/Lahn

mail: u.reitz@ppc-schule.de

fon: 0049 6431 94790 fax: 0049 6431 947942

Herr OStR Erhard Polk (coordinator exchange program with USA)

Zeppelinstr. 39

65549 Limburg/Lahn

mail: e.polk@web.de

fon: 0049 6431 94790 fax: 0049 6431 947942

Herr OStR Karl Kreis (coordinator exchange program with France)