Most current: 26/04/2012
The president of the Balearic Islands, José Ramón Bauzá and the counselor of Education, Culture and Universities, Rafael Bosch, are|find in Switzerland to know of first hand the module of professional training implanted at the schools of this country and to visit centers and multilingual institutes|high schools in the cities of Bern and Friburg to see the functioning|operation and the application of these studies in the companies.
The president Bauzá and the counselor Bosch, accompanied by the general consul of Switzerland for Catalonia, Comunitat Valenciana, Aragó, Balearic Islands and Principality of Andorra, Pascal Décosterd and the counselor of Education of the Embassy from Spain to Switzerland, Ángeles Dueñas, have visited the private school of the Vignettaz in Bern, with a visit guided by the classrooms school. Later, they have met the head|boss of the Unit of Coordination of Culture and Society|Company, international Organizations of the Lecture of the cantonal directors of the public instruction CDIP, Bernard Wicht.
On ending|finishing, the president Bauzá and the counselor Bosch, joint in|on the rest|subtraction of accompanied, they have visited the facilities of the Institute|High School Plurilingüe de Friburg, where the director of this center, Susanne Obermayer, and the head|boss of projects of the Institute|High School, Amelia Lambelet, they have made a presentation about the plurilingualism to|in the education: challenges and prospects from the point of view of the research.
After the visit in these educational centers, the president Bauzá has affirmed that "it is an opportunity to be able to know the best Swiss schools of first hand". According to Bauzá, I "want the Balearic dolls to have the same opportunities as the Swiss pupils, that it is to get the Balearic pupils to be able to dominate 3 or 4 languages on finishing the ESO". Moreover, he|she|it has added that "committing oneself for a natural plurilingualism is to commit for a major productivity and a major competitiveness".
For his|her|their part, the counselor of Education, Culture and University, Rafael Bosch, that outstanding that "the initiative of Swiss child centers of having "has been able to know two teachers for classroom, which two different languages speak." For Bosch, "the Government of the Balearic Islands intends to implant a model based on the freedom of choice of language|tongue and of equilibrium".
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