1. Vocational Training in Spain Sergio Monge Oñate

2.  1. What is vocational training?  2. How could I get a degree of vocational training?  3. Vocational training entrance.  4. Internships.  5. Formative Offer.  5.1 Professional families/Occupational field.  5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes (Microcomputer systems and networks )  5.3 C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)  5.4 C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma (Multiplatform Applications Development) INDEX

3.  6. National Qualification System.  6.1 National Qualification Catalog.  6.2 Professional Qualification.  6.3 Levels.  7. Occupational Vocational Training.  8. Continuous Vocational Training.  9. Initial Vocational Training Program. INDEX

4.  The vocational training is one of the options that offers the Spanish Educational System, whose main aspect is the internships according to the different skills that every profession entails.  Vocational training’s main aim is to train the students over a professional field and to facilitate their adaptation to professional changes that might appear along their life.  It is an attractive, flexible and high-quality option which absolutely fits to the necessities and interests of every single citizen. 1. What is vocational training?

5.  Professional Education is organized in two grades:  Middle-Grades Degrees  Upper-Grades Degrees  This Middle and Upper grades meet different levels of competence. Middle-Grades are related to functions like preparation, execution, production, etc., while Upper-Grades to functions like organization, coordination, planning, control, supervision... 1. What is Professional Education?

6.  There are three ways to obtain a qualification of vocational training:  On-site  Online  Exams to obtain directly the qualification 2. How could I get a qualification of vocational training?

7.  With previous qualifications:  With Compulsory Secondary Education Graduate, you can study a Middle-Grade degree  With High School Diploma, you can study a Upper-Grade degree  Without previous qualifications:  If you don't have previous qualifications, you can do an entrance exam. 3. Vocational training entrance

8. Compulsory Secondary Education Middle-Grades High School University High-Grades Entrance exam Optional Entrance exam

9.  Grades' curriculums always include a module of Internships (Formación en Centros de Trabajo), that need to be passed to obtain the qualification.  The aim of the module of Internships is formative, not industrial. So don't exist any contract: students won't be real workers, but they would work in different occupations according to the educational plan their guardians and course tutors have designed for them. 4. Internships

10.  Those who accredite professional experience related to the grade they are taking, will be exempt from the Internships.  Shall be made upon reaching the positive assessment in all professional modules made at educative center. The workplace tutor will collaborate with the school tutor to make a review. This module will be graded as fit or unfit.  This formative module be held at the end of the grade and it assumed 25% of teaching time (320-400 hours) 4. Internships

11.  Actually, the Professional Formation is organized in Middle-Grades and Upper-Grades, which train qualified for the performance of different professions and are grouped in 26 professional families. 5. Formative Offer.

12.  Physical and Sports Activities  Administration and Management  Agricultural  Graphic arts  Arts and crafts  Trade and marketing  Building and civil works  Electricity and electronics  Energy and water  Mechanical manufacturing  Hospitality and Tourism  Personal Image  Sound and vision  Food Industries  Extractive Industries  Computer and Communications  Installation and Maintenance  Wood, furniture and cork  Maritime-Fisheries  Chemistry  Health  Safety and Environment  Socio- Cultural Services and the Community  Textile, clothing and leather  Transport and Vehicle Maintenance  Glass and ceramics 5.1 Professional families/Occupationals fields

13. 5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes ( Microcomputer systems and networks )  Duration: 2000 Hours 2 Courses First CourseSecond Course In the centre 2 Trimesters In the centre 1 Trimester In the company

14.  The professional modules of this grade are:  Installation and maintenance of equipment.  Single-user operating systems.  Office applications.  Network operating systems.  Local networks.  Security.  Network services.  Web applications.  Training and career counseling.  Enterprise and entrepreneurship.  Workplace training / Internships 5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes ( Microcomputer systems and networks )

15.  What the students learn?  Install and configure basic and application software, wired LAN, wireless, or mixed and public network.  Install, configure and maintain multi-user services, applications and shared devices in a LAN environment.  Assemble and configure computers and peripherals. Determine logistics operations associated with installation, confi guration and maintenance of microcomputer systems.  Diagnose malfunctions in microcomputer systems and networks through functional testing. 5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes ( Microcomputer systems and networks )

16.  What the students learn?  Rethinking the electronic wiring and local networks in smaller environments and their connection to wide area networks.  Execute procedures and data recovery applications fail and data loss in the system.  Develop technical documentation and system administration, budgeting, and advise the client. 5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes ( Microcomputer systems and networks )

17.  What are the career opportunities?  Installer-repairer of equipment.  Computer support technician.  Technical data networks.  Repair of peripheral microcomputer systems.  Microcomputer business.  Tele-assistance operator.  System operator. 5.2 C.F.G.M. Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes ( Microcomputer systems and networks )

18. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development) & C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma (Multiplatform Applications Development)  Duration: 2000 Hours 2 Courses First CourseSecond Course In the centre 2 Trimesters In the centre 1 Trimester In the company

19.  First course modules:  Systems.  Databases.  Programming.  Markup languages ​​ and information management systems.  Development environments.  Training and career counseling. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development) & C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma (Multiplatform Applications Development)

20.  Second course modules:  Web development client environment.  Web development server environment.  Web application deployment.  WEB interface design.  Enterprise and entrepreneurship.  Workplace training.  Project web application development 5.3. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)

21.  Second course modules:  Data access.  Interface development.  Multimedia programming and mobile devices.  Programming services and processes.  Business management systems.  Enterprise and entrepreneurship.  Draft platform application development.  Workplace training. 5.4. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma (Multiplatform Applications Development)

22.  What the students learn?  Set up and operate computer systems, adapting the logical configuration of the system as user needs and criteria.  Apply techniques and procedures relating to security systems, services and applications, fulfilling the security plan.  Manage application server to adapt its configuration in each case to allow the deployment of web applications.  Database management, interpreting and verifying software design integrity, consistency, security and accessibility of data.  Develop web applications with access to databases using languages ​​, object access and mapping tools appropriate to the specifications. 5.3. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)

23.  What the students learn?  Integrating logic contained in the web application, developing data access components appropriate to specifications.  Develop interfaces in web applications according to a style manual, using markup languages ​​ and web standards.  Developing multimedia components for integration into web applications, using specific tools and following the specifications. 5.3. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)

24.  What the students learn?  Integrate multimedia components in a web application interface, making the analysis of interactivity, accessibility and usability of the application.  Develop and integrate software components on the web server environment, using specific tools and languages ​​ to meet the specifications of the application.  Develop services to integrate its functions into other web applications, ensuring their functionality.  Integrate services and content distributed web applications, ensuring their functionality. 5.3. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)

25.  What are the career opportunities?  Web Programmer.  Multimedia Programmer.  Application Developer Web environments.  What I can study when I finish?  Courses of professional specialization.  Another cycle of Higher Vocational Training with the possibility of validation of modules according to current regulations.  University Studies with the possibility of validation in accordance with current regulations. 5.3. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web (Web Applications Development)

26.  What the students learn?  Develop, implement, document and maintain software applications platform, using technologies and specific development environments, ensuring access to data in a secure and fulfilling the criteria of "usability" and required quality standards set. 5.4. C.F.G.S. Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma (Multiplatform Applications Development)

27.  What are the career opportunities?  Developing applications for business management and business.  Developing general purpose applications.  Develop applications in the field of entertainment and mobile computing.  What I can study when I finish?  Courses of professional specialization.  Another cycle of Higher Vocational Training with the possibility of validation of modules according to current regulations.  University Studies with the possibility of validation in accordance with current regulations.

28.  Is a set of tools and actions needed to promote and develop the integration of vocational training offers (through the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications), evaluation and accreditation of relevant skills. 6. National Qualification System.

29.  It is the instrument of the National Vocational Qualifications and professional qualifications ordering liable for recognition and accreditation as identified in the production system based on appropriate competencies for professional practice.  Comprises the most significant professional qualifications Spanish production system organized into occupational groups and levels. Constitutes the basis for developing the training offered titles and certificates of proficiency. 6.1 National Qualification Catalog.

30.  Is the set of professional skills for employment meaning that can be acquired through training modules or other types of training and through work experience.  There are 26 professional families and 5- level professional qualification. 6.2 Professional Qualification.

31.  Level 1 - Competition in a small set of simple activities into standardized processes. Limited knowledge and skills.  Level 2 - Jurisdiction in certain activities that can run independently. Ability to use instruments and techniques. Knowledge of technical and scientific basis of the activity and process.  Level 3 - Competition in activities that require a mastery of techniques and run independently. Responsibility for supervision of technical and specialized. Understanding of the technical and scientific activities and the process. 6.3 Levels.

32.  Level 4 - Competition in a wide range of complex activities. Variety of contexts with varying technical, scientific, economic or organizational. Responsibility for supervision of work and allocation of resources. Innovation capability to plan actions, develop projects, processes, products or services.  Level 5 - Competition in a wide range of complex activities carried out with great autonomy. Variety of contexts often indispensable. Action planning and design of products, processes or services. Leadership and management responsibility. 6.3 Levels.

33.  Occupational professional education addresses the following training needs:  Training for entry into the labor market to those without specific training.  Training for reintegration into the labor market of those whose skills are insufficient.  Retrofitting from the professional point of view of workers who need to acquire new skills by changes in the production system or technology 7. Occupational vocational training.

34.  It aims to provide training employed they may need throughout their working lives in order to obtain the knowledge and practices appropriate to the requirements at any time require the companies, and allow the most competitive compatible with improving vocational training and promotion of the individual worker. 8. Continuous Vocational Training.

35.  Initial Vocational Training Programs (PCPI) are aimed at students of sixteen years who have not earned the title of Secondary Education.  These programs include three types of modules:  Modules referring to units of competence related to level one of the National Catalog of Professional Qualifications.  General training modules aimed at extending the basic skills and encourage the transition from school to work.  Voluntary modules aimed at obtaining the title of Secondary Education. 9. Initial Vocational Training Program.