The cursed FP titles that almost no one wants to study: “You wouldn’t send your children either, if you have another option”

The hammering that resounds in the nave, that of the needle piercing the skin of a shoe for the first time, is heard less and less in the shoe workshop…

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The pedagogue Javier Valle: “Teachers feel abandoned in the face of the educational change in competences”

Competence-based learning, which emphasizes, rather than transmitting mountains of content to students for them to reproduce in exams, on trying to internalize knowledge, know how to apply it to solve…

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The changes in the way of teaching that few teachers understand: “To most of us it sounds like Chinese”

There are 50 teachers in a classroom in Cuenca.—“Does anyone want to present the learning situation that they have prepared?”, the teacher who leads the class asks them.Silence.—“If there are…

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The incipient dual FP already marks a great labor advantage, but with a gender gap

Dual vocational training class in power plants, on the Red Eléctrica de España campus.Victor SainzOne of the great promises of dual vocational training —which combines training at the training center…

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The rise of tutoring: the rich use it to differentiate their children, the poor so they don’t get left behind

The growing climate of school competitiveness and the attempt by families to improve the educational trajectory and job prospects of their children has triggered the market for private classes to…

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