Adult education in Castilla y León

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UPDATE DATE: 2024/11/26

SDG CODE: Section E1, Subsection Education System - Adult Learning

This page aims to inform about adult education in Castilla y León, as well as about all related aspects.

Adult education helps adults to acquire, update, complete or broaden their knowledge, favouring lifelong learning.

It offers the possibility of acquiring basic skills and, where appropriate, the corresponding qualifications, facilitating access to compulsory secondary education or equivalent for young people who left school early and for adults who wish to continue their learning.

It allows immigrants who arrive in our Community without studies or without knowledge of Spanish the possibility of training in different fields.

It also enables adults to acquire new skills for their professional and personal development.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

In Castilla y León it is the responsibility of the Consejería de Educación, which carries out a decentralised management at provincial level, through the 9 Direcciones Provinciales de Educación.

In general, people over 18 years of age or those who will be 18 years of age in the year in which the school year begins may enrol in adult education.

Exceptionally, those over 16 years of age who request it and who are in any of the following circumstances may attend adult education:

• They have an employment contract that does not allow them to attend ordinary education centres.
• They are high-performance sportsmen and women.

WHAT CAN YOU STUDY?

Area of education aimed at access to other levels of the education system.

• Basic Education for adults.

1. Initiation Level
2. Basic Knowledge Level
3. Secondary Education for adults.

• Baccalaureate for adults.

1. Distance Baccalaureate
2. Evening Baccalaureate

• Training programmes for the preparation of free examinations and entrance examinations:

1. Free examinations for obtaining the diploma of graduation in ESO.
2. Entrance exams to intermediate and higher level Vocational Training cycles.
3. University entrance exams for those over 25 and 45 years of age.

• Programmes for the development and reinforcement of specific basic skills.

Training area oriented towards professional development.

• Programmes for the acquisition and development of professional skills.
• Programmes for the preparation of exams to obtain the title of Technician and Higher Technician in Vocational Training.
• Specific vocational training for adults.
• Mentor Classroom Programme.

Training area for personal and social development.

• Programme for the development and reinforcement of basic generic competences.

MODALITIES:

Adult education can be taken in two modalities:

• In-person.
• Distance learning.

WHERE TO STUDY?

• There is a free public network of Adult Education Centres (CEPAS) and Adult Education Classrooms in Castilla y León.
• Many of these centres are located in rural areas and their radius of action is territorial, i.e. they cover all the municipalities included in their scope of action.
• You can consult the details of all the adult education centres and classrooms in Castilla y León in the following link:
• Adult Education Centers and Classrooms Castilla y León

The admission process, after the appropriate call for applications, is usually carried out in the educational centres themselves.

General information on adult education is available on the Lifelong learning of the Education Portal .

Information is provided on:

• Educational offer .
• Free Tests .
• Homologations and equivalences of titles .
• Accreditation of professional skills

LINKS OF INTEREST RELATED TO ADULT EDUCATION:

Below, we list several links for university training for adults:

• Training for seniors at the University of Burgos .
• Training of seniors at the University of León. Interuniversity Experience Program (PIEx) .
• Training for seniors at the University of Salamanca. Interuniversity Experience Program .
• Training for seniors at the University of Valladolid. University training program for seniors – “Millán Santos” Permanent University ”

AUTHORITY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFORMATION:

• Junta de Castilla y León- Consejería de Educación

LEGAL AND/OR TECHNICAL REFERENCES

• Adult Education Regulations