The Government and Repsol signed an agreement to develop the dual vocational training

Tarragona. Costa Dorada. February 21, 2013. The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, presided at the plant in Puebla Repsol of Muhammad, the signing of an agreement between the Department of Education of the Repsol and to promote and develop vocational training dual. This teaching model that promotes Government, students combine their education with practical business. Under the agreement signed today by the Minister of Education, Irene Rigau, and the director of Repsol industrial complex, John Pedrerol, Repsol and the Government will promote, encourage and develop in full training and alternating dual cycle higher-level training in industrial chemistry at the Institute of Earl Rivers, Tarragona, to train people in the professional field of chemistry and respond to the needs of qualified this production center. The event was also attended by the Director General of the Department of Repsol New Energy and Industrial, Josu Jon Imaz, and the mayors of Puebla of Muhammad, Constantine Perafort, El Morell and valleys as well as the President of Tarragona. The Government promotes this new type of dual vocational training, which was launched this academic year 2012-2013 in which students have a contract or grant wage and are part of the training, both theoretical and practical, company. Initial vocational training with dual model allows students to combine school education and productive activity in a business-related degree who is attending. This year there are 548 students who are being trained under this model colleges. The agreement signed today will allow another 72 students eligible for this model. Training this model, inspired by existing models in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Denmark, the government wants to promote economic recovery. CAREC's recommendations were in the same line and ensure that the employability of young people to encourage active participation is required of companies in the development of curricula and the subsequent evaluation of the students. In the Dual Vocational Training Company assumes prominence. Their role is not limited to the receipt of trainees, as in the traditional model, but is involved in the training of students through their participation in curricular adaptations. In the case of Repsol, signed the agreement provides that the Institute of Compte de Rius, Tarragona, formalized a commitment to students and the company, which collected the organizational characteristics of the mode switching and dual commitments of each party. This document will contain, among other things, the activities of internships will be held in the company, the distribution of training time and labor, the distribution of modules that will be in the company and the school and calendar of activities of academic recognition. Repsol has agreements with the Government of Catalonia in order to meet the need for trained personnel to incorporate vacant jobs that have enabled the incorporation of 473 people in the Repsol workforce in the past 15 years. The industrial complex in Tarragona Repsol plans to cover 277 vacancies in the next 5 years with students participating in these courses.

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