SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28th May (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Education of the Canary Islands will provide 498 additional spots for the first cycle of Early Childhood Education. The application period will run from 13th to 21st June and is exceptional in nature. Initially, 1,199 spots were already offered, which were operational in the academic year 2023/2024. The announcement includes spots in three new centres; Elvira Vaquero (Valsequillo, Gran Canaria), Los Verodes (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), and Concepción Rodríguez Artiles (Tías, Lanzarote).
This initiative, funded by European Next Generation EU funds, will see the new spots dispersed across 30 classrooms in 23 establishments. These include Gran Canaria’s CEIPs Villa de Firgas, Agustín Hernández Díaz (Moya), Casa Pastores (Santa Lucía de Tirajana), Doctor Gregorio Chil and Naranjo (Telde), Juan Grande (San Bartolomé de Tirajana), and Alfredo Kraus, El Toscón and María Jesús Pérez Morales (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). Tenerife will see spots at centres like Acentejo (La Matanza), Adeje, Agustín Espinosa (Los Realejos), Inocencio Sosa Hernández (La Orotava), Juan Cruz Ruiz (Puerto de la Cruz), Plus Ultra (La Guancha), and Teobaldo Power (Guía de Isora).
Additionally, in El Hierro, CEIP Valverde and Tigaday (La Frontera) will introduce new places. In Lanzarote, CEIP Playa Blanca (Yaiza) and Playa Honda (San Bartolomé) will also do so. In La Palma, CEIP El Roque (Los Llanos de Aridane) and Gabriel Duque Acosta (Santa Cruz de La Palma), along with the Compulsory Education centres (CEO) Barlovento and Juan XXIII in Barlovento and Tazacorte.
The guidelines and calls for the extraordinary admission process for students in the first cycle of early childhood education for the academic year 2024-2025, issued by the General Directorate of Administration of Centres, Schooling and Complementary Services, can be found on the Ministry’s website. The document will also soon be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC).
Following the application period (13th June to 21st June), potential students will have until 24th June to submit the necessary documentation for assessment. The provisional lists of accepted, not accepted, and excluded students will be published on the 27th of the same month. After a period for appeals and withdrawals (27th June to 1st July), the final lists will be published on the 3rd of July. Finally, registration and applications for the complementary school cafeteria service will be accepted from 3rd to 5th July.
The Regional Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, is fulfilling their commitment to open new early childhood education classrooms as construction completes. This proactive approach aims to prevent a repeat of the previous year when the government offered 1,196 places that were not ready by September. To avoid this, only operational spots were first offered, and now, an additional thirty new classrooms (498 spots) are being added. Further expansion is expected in the first term of the 2024/2025 academic year.
COURSES AND AGE GROUPS
In most cases, each establishment will introduce a new classroom with eighteen spots for students in their third year of early childhood education. CEIP Playa Honda (San Bartolomé) will incorporate two classrooms (36 spots) for that same year. María Jesús Pérez Morales (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and CEOs Barlovento (Barlovento) and Juan XXIII (Tazacorte) will offer mixed classrooms with fourteen spots for second and third-year students.
CEIP Playa Blanca (Yaiza) will introduce two classrooms with 26 spots in the second year of preschool, while Tigaday (Frontera) will offer five classrooms – one with eight spots for the first year, two with 26 spots for the second year, and two with 36 spots for the third year of early childhood education.
