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The number of students in vocational education distance is tripled last year, and will continue to grow and with better educational content
The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), José Antonio Franco, today signed a collaboration agreement to "open up the labor market for students in vocational education and improve training with new digital learning content. "
Pedro Antonio Sánchez stressed that the agreement allows "the optimization of public resources and establish ties with the physical infrastructure and relationships, relational capital of the Department of Business of the Polytechnic University-FP to facilitate access to employment in a more agile and profitable way. "
The agreement provides, on the one hand, the possibility of using the Center for Digital Content Production Polytechnic University for teaching in the field of vocational training and on the other hand, the possibility of internships in companies working with the Business Chair, taking advantage of their relations with the productive sector and channel demands of the productive sector vet techs.
Specifically, the Center for Digital Content Production at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has professional and necessary for the creation of specially designed audiovisual and multimedia digital content for teaching and learning technology.
The agreement will enable teachers FP of the region make videos and educational materials to improve existing or create entirely new ones.
Thus, it becomes more attractive and material quality is improved learning that will access the students in vocational education at a distance, in the last year have increased 40 percent and a significant increase is expected in the next year.
Currently, 1,575 students in the Region continue their studies in vocational training in the distance mode, compared to just over 1000 than they did in the 2013-2014 year.
"New technologies and the need we all have to continue forming us facilitate that more and more demand for distance learning, in which physical barriers are broken and that allow students to train in the time of day that suits you "said the Minister of Education.
During this course, for example, the Ministry of Education has developed its own digital content such as technical English for Vocational Training cycles Web Application Development, Health Emergency and Laboratory Analysis and Quality Control
Relations with companies
Furthermore, this agreement will enable Vocational Training students to do their training period in the workplace in collaborating companies of the Chair of Business at the Polytechnic, expanding your access to the labor market in the best conditions.
By signing the agreement the collaboration that already existed between the UPCT and vocational training centers, opening over the range of companies that vocational students may access to already be linked to the university and to have needs significantly expands occupational profiles closer to offering vocational training grades.
Source: CARM
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