History

• 1900 24th September the first Moravian two-form Business School came into being. Originally located in the Upper Square, it was later moved into a former post office building in Bratislavska street. Its founder Václav Hrubý became the first headmaster. The school was private until 1904.
• 1909 Merchant Continuing School was attached
• 1922 Construction of a new building in Bartošova street was completed and it has housed the school ever since
• 1934 The four-year Business Academy and Business School were established.
• 1945 The school changed its name several times after 1945: Higher Economic School and Lower Economic School, then Four-Year and Two-Year Economic School.
• 1953 Evening and distant forms of study were introduced.
• 1960 A new name was given to the school: Secondary Economic School and Economic School.. It offered new branches of study: general economics and economics of service.
• 1965 National Language School, later Language School became a part of the school.
• 1976 The branch of study called economics of service was replaced by administration and secretarial work.
• 1979 A large extension to the school was finished.
• 1980 Two-year study was abolished.
• 1986 The branch of study administration and secretarial work was cancelled.
• 1990 The name Business Academy has been reused for both the school and the branch of study.
• 2003 Another branch of study - lyceum of economics - was included.
• 2005 A new name of the school was adopted: Business Academy and Language School Entitled to State Exams, Přerov, Bartošova 24.

The Present

• Branches of study: business academy and lyceum of economics
• Modern information technology
• Multimedia methods of teaching, used above all in special subjects and language teaching
• Extra-curriculum activities, lectures, excursions, educational trips, sports and cultural events
• Prevention of pathological phenomena
• Languages taught: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Czech for foreigners
• Extended language study
• State examinations in languages and typing
• Participation in international projects Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates
• Participation in ESF projects
• Participation in prevention of social pathological phenomena projects

International projects Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates

• 2006
  Leonardo da Vinci – “Integration of central Moravia into the EU” –
  a 3-week placement of 10 students in Malta
   
• 2006
  Leonardo da Vinci – “Languages and computers hug European education”-
  a stay of 10 teachers in Greece focussed on learning about a foreign system
  of education
   
• 2006
  Socrates – a summer language course in Germany attended by one teacher
  in order to improve language teaching

ESF project

• 2006 – 2008
  OP RLZ – “Multimedia method of teaching languages”

Other projects

• 2006
   “Prevention of social-pathological phenomena in secondary school pupils
  through active social learning” –an adaptive stay in Rusava