A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF FEB

The First World War, the collapse and disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the creation of new states interrupted the already expensive and difficult to access higher education opportunities for Croatian youth in the old university centers of the Monarchy. Therefore, barely a month and a half after the creation of the new state, the SCS Board of Commissioners (Provisional Government) in Zagreb issued an order on the establishment of the Technical High School, the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (published in the Official Gazette on December 18, 1918). The Technical High School had six technical departments, and three courses: Geodetic Course, the Insurance Technique Course, and the Education Course for Teachers in Higher Commercial Schools. The first students of the Education Course for Teachers in Higher Commercial Schools at the Royal Technical High School were invited to enroll “in the academic year 1919/20” by an advertisement published in the Official Gazette No. 152 of October 18, 1919, announcing the lectures starting on November 3, 1919. However, as it turned out from the beginning that such an organization of studies could not function well, a decision was brought before the end of the school year to separate the Course... from the Technical High School and to transform it into an independent higher education institution. By the Royal Decree establishing the High School of Commerce and Transport in Zagreb until its later constitutional establishment, the High School ... began operating on July 1, 1920. The HSCT, as well as its successor, the Economic and Commercial High School, were independent higher education institutions throughout their existence organized outside the University of Zagreb. Classes at the High School of Commerce and Transport lasted 3 years (6 semesters), and for the entire period of its existence (from the academic year 1920-1921 to the academic year 19241925) the same curriculum was used (lecture order), which was amended only according to the expressed needs.