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EUC Vest has introduced re-education
entirely on the companies’ conditions
By Poul-Arne Callesen & Steffen S. Nielsen, EUC Vest
EUC Vest is the largest provider of re-education in the south-western
part of Denmark. The centre is provider of a number of courses within
service and crafts relevant for the offshore industry.
The offshore industries demands for re-education are crucial to EUC
Vest and the centre does its utmost at all times to meet the demands,
which the companies have both for the contents as well as the form of
re-education.
As an example EUC Vest has just opened a new centre for Automation
& Control in Esbjerg, based on the demands from the industry.
By opening the centre, EUC Vest wished partly to strengthen the reeducation
area within automatics and process technology and partly to
make re-education more flexible.
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This meant, among other things, that EUC Vest now has said goodbye
to a long-standing tradition of cancelling courses, due to lack of participants.
In the “old days” a minimum of 10-12 participants was necessary
for the centre to be able to go through with a course. Now it is
guaranteed that the course will be carried out, and more courses will
take place at the same time in the Centre of Automatics and Control.
During 10 weeks in the spring and 10 weeks in the autumn, EUC
Vest carries out five basic courses comprising hydraulics, pneumatics,
electricity, and PLC. The centre still adheres to a combination of
theory and practice, however, the students must be prepared to assume
a greater responsibility than earlier and to work more independently.
The Centre of Automatics and Control is a specially organized
educational environment where the teacher goes from hydraulics to
pneumatics to electricity and fault-finding. Thus, the students must