The Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca, chaired today the establishment of the Monitoring Committee that "is going to take to ensure the development and functioning of Dual Vocational Training" under the agreement signed with the Repsol.
Sotoca, accompanied by the director of the refinery in Cartagena, Juan Antonio Carrillo de Albornoz, visited the first class of students of Industrial Chemistry, which is modeled dual vocational training and therefore alternate training activity in the IES Polytechnic with work activity on the premises that the company in tailings.
Specifically, the 18 students in this cycle began in Superior Grade February training in the company, with the guidance of some officials of Repsol is being taught the curriculum content in their own workplace.
Materials, equipment, operation of the plant or the different processes they employ, are some of the issues they are learning in situ, as well as everything related to the security system, "something absolutely essential in the company and, therefore, in student learning, "said Sotoca.
In this regard, he recalled the importance of the implementation of this model of vocational training in the region, and called on students to "seize the opportunity presented to them because it truly is a plus training will result in the improvement of their professional qualification and therefore their labor projection ".
Sotoca Dual VET said is "guaranteed success" and noted that "the Department will continue to advance the development of this model, extending it to other cycles and sectors so that we can improve the chances of employment of young people in our community ".
Source: CARM