1. Education, Language Policy and Culture Department
Basque Government

2. Jaun agurgarriak, andra agurgarriak, ongi etorri
Good morning and welcome to Basque Country
Hello, Good morning everybody,
Before we start, we’d like to welcome you to this little corner of the world, the Basque Country, where you’ll be spending 7 or 8 days. Welcome in the name of the Basque Government and the Department of Education.
Your Arion visit is part of the European Union’s Socrates Programme. And, although I imagine you already got to know each other yesterday at the informal meeting at the hotel, I’d like to remind everyone of the European Union States represented here:
Germany, Netherlans, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and Lithuania,
We, as European Union members, have taken part in European programmes…. And we have some experience hosting Study Visits . Anyway we ask for your help and co-operation, and beg your forgiveness for any possible mistake you might find.
Guten morgen; Buongiorno; Labas rytas; Bună dimineaţa; Kalimera; Günaydın; Bom dia

3. Basque Autonomous Community
General background on the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC)
The BAC, or Euskadi, is made up of three ‘historic territories’, or provinces: Bizkaia, Alava and Gipuzkoa. As you know, we are located near the Pyrenees, the mountain range that forms the official border between Spain and France.
There are three important cities in the BAC:
1.      Vitoria-Gasteiz is the administrative capital and seat of the Basque Government, Central Education Services, etc.
2.    Donostia-San Sebastian is the tourism capital and home of the International Film Festival.
3.    Bilbao, the economic and industrial capital, nowadays in the process of converting to a service-oriented centre. Bizkaia’s capital city is the center of a number of surrounding towns, with a population of 1,100,000, so ± 50% of the entire population of the BAC. Your Arion visit is mostly centred in Bilbao,

4. Three Linguistic ModelsB
SPANISH
BASQUE
SPANISH A
BASQUE
BASQUE
SPANISH D

5. Three Linguistic Models
Languages used in teaching classes (%)
Preschool, primary, secondary and vocational training.

6. Three Linguistic Models
Distribution of students in the different linguistic models.
Preschool, primary,secondary and vocational training.
15,1 %
19 %
65,3 %
0,6 %
364,381 students
students
students
students

7. IRALE Program
Level 0
18%
Level 1 8%
Level 2
77%

8. Some significant features:
Students
public
55 %
private
45%
Teachers
public
64%
private
36%
Schools
public
68%
private
32%

10. AVERAGE SCHOOLS GOVERNING BODY:
The School Leader
The Head of Studies.
The Secretary
8 Teachers
8 Parents
1 Town Council representative
1 representative of the non-teaching staff and
2 Secondary Education students

11. BASQUE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION INDICATORS
EUROPE 2020 INDICATORS
BASQUE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION INDICATORS

12. SPAIN: 65,8
EU: 82,3
BASQUE COUNTRY: 86,7
PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS FINISHING POST-COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION 2014 12

13. PARTICIPATION IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING 2013
BASQUE COUNTRY: 13.4
SPAIN: 11,1
EU: 10.5

14. EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS
RATE 2014
EU: 11,1
SPAIN: 21,9 14

15. EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS RATE 2014 BASQUE COUNTRY 9,4 EU: 11,1 SPAIN: 21,9
SOURCE: MECD 15

16. BASQUE COUNTRY: 61,3
SPAIN: 42,3
EU: 36,9
PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION (30-34 YEARS OLD), ENTITLED HIGHER EDUCATION

17. MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES 2012
BASQUE COUNTRY: 28,2
EU: 17,1
SPAIN: 15,6
MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES 2012 17

18. ESKERRIK ASKO THANK YOU VERY MUCH MUCHAS GRACIAS
Hello, Good morning everybody,
Before we start, we’d like to welcome you to this little corner of the world, the Basque Country, where you’ll be spending 7 or 8 days. Welcome in the name of the Basque Government and the Department of Education.
Your Arion visit is part of the European Union’s Socrates Programme. And, although I imagine you already got to know each other yesterday at the informal meeting at the hotel, I’d like to remind everyone of the European Union States represented here:
Germany, Netherlans, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and Lithuania,
We, as European Union members, have taken part in European programmes…. And we have some experience hosting Study Visits . Anyway we ask for your help and co-operation, and beg your forgiveness for any possible mistake you might find.