Avoid dropping out and offer young people an opportunity to continue their education.
à ‰ it is the aim of the Occupational Classroom Course for the prevention and control of absenteeism. And that is primarily what they wanted to convey this morning at the opening of the course the Councillor for Education, Josefa Maroto and as responsible Bastarreche Admiral centers, Mediterranean and Polytechnic.
Fifteen young people between 14 and 15 years will study this year in the old school gardening Carmen Conde.
According to the mayor, the first years of this program, taught masonry, but decided to change it for gardening, to attract more young people.
Students are privileged, last year 14 of those who started this program then continued studying a PCPI (Initial Professional Qualification Programmes). Had a 95% success and we hope to repeat on this occasion, the mayor noted.
Also, teachers have stressed that today is hard to find work and even more so if you have no basic training.
The event was attended by pupils and their parents, who have toured the building to see its facilities.
The Occupational Classroom, in which classes are Gardening, is the result of a collaboration agreement between the city of Cartagena andthe Department of Education, Training and Employment, the Department of Education and Service to Diversity.
The aim is to prevent and control absenteeism and dropout under 14 and 15 years. This year the institute in charge of the program is the Polytechnic.
GERMAN MODEL OF THE Polita ‰ FP TECHNICIAN
Furthermore, the head teacher at the IES Polytechnic, José María Carrasco, has excused the absence of the director of the center, as it was in a meeting at the Ministry of Education.
We will implement the dual FP, ie the German model this year.
In this sense, the students of Industrial Chemistry training cycle compatibilizarán their studies with paid work experience in tailings and Sabic.
Carraco has said that this year has been an increase in applications in the center.
The Polytechnic now consists of over a thousand students.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena