SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has authorized the IES Ichasagua, in Los Cristianos, and Rafael Arozarena, in La Orotava, to teach the Bachiller and Baccalauréat double degree program, generically called Bachibac.
The Franco-Spanish baccalaureate offer, which leads to the double degree, allows access to university in both countries.
It is currently being developed in the public institutes of the Canary Islands Cabrera Pinto, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and Pérez Galdós, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and in the private Secondary Education centers René Verneau, in Telde, and Jules Verne, in Santa Cruz. from Tenerife.
The total number of students enrolled in Bachibac in the current school year is 249 students.
The opening of the program to two new centers responds to the educational department’s strategy of internationalization and promotion of foreign language learning.
Both institutes incorporate the double degree of Bachiller and Baccalauréat with the guarantee of a trajectory of several courses of application of the EMILE methodology, an integrated learning of contents in the French language, an essential aspect for the implementation of Bachibac.
The General Directorate of Educational Planning, Innovation and Promotion promotes that the public centers of the islands follow this example, with the prior implementation of the EMILE methodology in the last cycle of Primary and in the first stage of Secondary, as is already happening in several schools and institutes in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, north and east of Gran Canaria, La Palma and in the metropolitan area of Tenerife.
In this line, the Ministry offers human and material resources to those centers whose multilingual teaching is included in their educational project, in order to increase the learning of the French language in public education in the Canary Islands.
