If there is something that ITEP has always been clear about, it is the pragmatic potential of Vocational Training.The desire to banish pre-existing prejudices about this type of teaching has always been his workhorse. At a time when the data support the postulate that VET is no longer the little and disadvantaged sister of university education, reason seems to assist those who see in this formula the present and the future of professional preparation.In the 2020-2021 academic year, more than eight million students enrolled in Vocational Training, assuming a total growth of 5% compared to the previous year. All this with a significant rise in online VET due, surely, to the pandemic in which we are still immersed. There are three pillars on which the success of VET is based. The flow of teaching itself puts a specific weight on the practicalpreparation , real, which means that students do not have to spend a long time adapting to the world of work that awaits them. Time is another important variable of this educational formula, two school years, including three months of internships, are enough to have a degree (completely official in the case of ITEP) that opens the doors of a world of work that eagerly awaits workers qualified.And, finally, the ease of finding stable work in a short period of time. The Technical Institute of Professional Studies (ITEP) has been dedicated to training generations of workers for more than forty years. Initially it was dedicated exclusively to the health branch but, in a process of continuous growth, it has been expanding to reach four training centers in the Community of Madrid and opening up to other specialties. It currently reaches the health, IT, commerce and marketing and socio-cultural services branches. In addition, in this continuous expansion that it carries out, ITEP has embraced distance learning, doubling almost all of the Training Cycles that it carries out in face-to-face and online modalities . In this way, the data speak of 17 cycles, divided into Higher Grade and Intermediate Grade, 13 with face-to-face and online modality, 2 taught only in face-to-face mode and 2 exclusively online. This is the current scenario. But it’s about to change. InSeptember , although with the possibility of open registration, I TEP lands in the very heart of Andalusia, in Seville , with a large center destined to promote, once again, FP. With the working method that has made it a benchmark in Madrid, it arrives in the capital of Seville with the firm conviction of increasing its catalog by becoming sensitive to the specific needs of the region and making training based on the in-depth knowledge of each specialty, the concern for updating the contents and practical knowledge, and the involvement with each person who walks through its doors and places their future in the hands of ITEP.
There are many reasonsthat have made possible the opening of the future ITEP center in Seville. The fundamental one is, perhaps, the presence that the students of this region, and of Andalusia in general, have traditionally had in the aforementioned training center. This issue has been remarkably notable in the realm of online grooming. With the arrival of ITEP Seville, the problem of having to travel to take the final exams of each term will be less for students from the southern half of Spain.This expansion, both in the number of centers and disciplines that ITEP can address, is part of an ambitious expansion program in which it is immersed and in which Seville is an excellent foundation stone. included in the training with ITEP, theBenefits of the Effective Labor Insertion Method (ILE). A form of work that helps the graduate student in his transition to the world of work through small specialized training and the provision of resources so that this transition is smooth. This is an initiative that the center launched relatively recently but has already reaped great successes. the effortby which the students, who finish their training, are put in contact with the labor reality of the specialty for which they have been trained. It is a transition work between the academic field and the labor world that makes it a much more less abrupt and much more manageable. Managing the transition from the classroom to the workplace is one of the keys to Vocational Training. In the case of ITEP, the degree of labor insertion is quite high, hovering around 80% of placement of its students in less than 3 months after the completion of the final practices of each training cycle. As if all of the above were not enough, ITEP tries to train students with an open-minded perspective in relation to the real possibility of entrepreneurship.There are already several examples of people who have passed through the classes at the training center and who, with the desire to apply the lessons learned, but with the intention of personalizing and adapting the work experience to the vision of each one. In short, Seville It will be the best possible place for a teaching method like ITEP, which has been tested in a place as wide and varied as the Community of Madrid , to test its way of doing things with a student body that will be demanding and eager to take advantage of future opportunities offered by Vocational Training. From the Technical Institute of Professional Studies itself, the hours are counted to begin the exciting journey of professional preparation, in its many fields and options., in such an emblematic and key place, in all possible meanings of the word, in the south of Spain as the capital of Andalusia, Seville.
