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80 percent of students in the Integrated Center is inserted into the labor market

The Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Sotoca Constantine inaugurated the expansion of Integrated Training Center of Cartagena, which specializes in professional family of Hospitality and Tourism, and has involved an investment of 400,000 euros.

Sotoca stressed that the aim of enlargement has been "to improve and adapt the facilities of the Integrated Center for students who are studying his teachings are trained in the best possible conditions."

For the counselor, "the best way to demonstrate the value of these teachings are all students and professionals coming out of training cycles" and said that "this increase represents an improvement in the quality of training provided by the center" , which has a wide range not only of training for employment, but also vocational training cycles.

Sotoca explained that "has enabled a new area of ​​classroom blocks and a classroom workshop room, where students who attend the training courses Restoration Services, will develop their practice in an environment as real as possible."

Moreover, in the old downtown have adapted existing spaces and has set up a workshop to provide practical content cycle Bakery, Pastry and Confectionery.

The Education and Employment said "Cartagena is one of the main economic engines of the region" and said the Tourism and Hospitality as "strategic sectors of development and jobs that require skilled professionals."

In this regard, he stressed the degree of employability of the students who attend the training courses in these specialties and reaches 80 percent, which, in its view, demonstrates "the quality of training we are offering and sensitivity and dynamic companies in these sectors. "

Sotoca said that, currently, there are 60 companies working with the Integrated Training Center of Hospitality and Tourism Cartagena, and this year the Ministry has signed 15 new cooperation agreements with some bars and cafes in the city for students practices can be made.

Business collaboration, said the adviser, is "essential to provide a first contact work to students, many of which go to join the workforce in the workplace after the training period."

Cartagena, regarding training

One of the most significant developments this year is a new edition of the Procedure of Recognition, Evaluation, Accreditation and Registration of professional competence (PREAR), which "will allow some 150 professionals from the Hospitality demonstrate the skills acquired by the work experience or unofficially. To Sotoca, "is an extraordinary opportunity for workers to complete their training while obtaining the certificate of professional or vocational qualification.

The counselor said the regional government's effort to promote these teachings, and said that Cartagena has become "an indisputable leader in the field of vocational training."

In this regard, he recalled that the municipality has the only national referral center in the professional family of Chemistry, and has three of the six integrated centers that depend on the Ministry of Education, "to which one must add a fourth, when dividing the current IES Polytechnic, "said Sotoca.

He stressed the increase in the number of students enrolled in vocational training in Cartagena, "In the last two years has increased by 25 percent, reaching up to 3,500 students during this academic year."

Source: CARM