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Your training, our commitment
Miguel Altuna is committed to comprehensive training at all levels. For this reason, at Miguel Altuna we offer Initial Training and Training for Employment, using the best technological processes and innovative educational methodologies.
We make our training part of a profound industrial, innovative and competitive vocation, based on continuous improvement and working on participatory training in which the methodologies are part of the process. Thus, companies and vocational training work hand in hand in order to create common projects in development, knowledge transfer and innovation programmes.
"We work for training based on continuous improvement and innovation".
The characteristics of the projects are described in the strategic objectives of the centre. In order to develop the aforementioned objectives, Miguel Altuna takes into account the mission and vision of the school itself.
All of this is framed within a strategic plan endorsed by the entire school staff where the guidelines to be followed have been established, taking the project and its development as a reference:
To focus on innovation and to be a benchmark in new technologies.
To be an international benchmark in our own specialities (to encourage internationalisation).
To develop infrastructures that are appropriate to the environment.
Make the world of work and the world of training work together, creating dynamics and making them dynamic in order to be able to respond to the new challenges that arise in society and in the world of work.
Work on diversity and multilingualism, guaranteeing the use of the Basque language.
To guarantee good communication.
Mission, vision and values
Mission
The mission of Miguel Altuna LHII is to offer a quality and multilingual education, regarding the ideas agreed upon by the school community, and responsive to:
The students, according to their abilities and needs, promoting the idea of autonomy and personal commitment.
The companies and the social environment, by increasing the qualifications of workers and unemployed people both in Bergara and the surrounding area.
Values
The center wants to develop values that are a proof of our behavior and attitudes:
Teamwork.
Tolerance and companionship.
Caring for our internal clientele, teaching staff, students and non-teaching staff.
Recognition of the work carried out.
Transmission of initiative and creativity.
Fostering of an atmosphere of mutual respect: teachers-students, students-students-teachers.
Vision
The school aspires to:
Boost the overall personal development and academic level of its students.
Improve the capabilities of its people.
Be open to national and international learning.
Provide a response to Initial, Continuous and Occupational Training and Lifelong Learning.
Support local companies in the development of innovation.
Be a benchmark in the area for projects and for being a pleasant and environmentally friendly technological enclave.
Be a reference in the adoption of a real commitment to equality between men and women.
“Miguel Altuna offers a quality bilingual teaching staff”
Quality
Miguel Altuna’s quality policy and strategy are structured to meet the needs and desires of the centre’s stakeholders. For this purpose, the EFQM European Quality System and the Quality Management System based on the UNE-EN-ISO-9000 Standard are taken as a reference.
The centre adopts the following commitments: to review its system through revisions to improve its influence and to comply with existing legal requirements.
The Quality Policy is deployed through the Management and Quality Plan. These objectives will have indicators that will be measured to evaluate their degree of compliance in the established periods.
The centre’s commitment to the Quality System involves all personnel and accepts the following responsibilities:
Compliance with the requirements of the Quality System.
Participation in the improvement of Quality Management.
Help to achieve the objectives.
The management team will put all the necessary means to achieve these objectives.
Quality policy for service providers
"We have a quality system based on the EFQM European Management Model and the UNE-EN-ISO 9001 law."
Risk prevention
and environment
Risk prevention
The aim of the following process is the compulsory compliance with the coordination of business activities, i.e. to efficiently protect both internal and external staff (as indicated in article 3 of Royal Decree 171/2004 of 30 January, which regulates the non-university public schools of the Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government).
The coordination of business activities for the prevention of occupational risks must guarantee compliance with the following objectives:
The coherent and responsible application of the principles of preventive action established in Article 15 of Law 31/1995, of 8 November, on the Prevention of Occupational Hazards, by the companies that concur in the workplace.
The correct application of the working methods by the concurrent companies in the workplace.
The control of the interactions of the different activities carried out in the workplace, in particular when they may generate risks classified as serious or very serious or when activities are carried out in the workplace that are incompatible with each other due to their impact on the health and safety of the people who work there.
The adequacy between the risks existing in the workplace that may affect the people working in the concurrent enterprises and the measures applied for their prevention.
Environment
Agenda 2030 is a programme of education for sustainability and quality of the centre based on the participation of the school community and which aims to get involved in the development of sustainability both in Bergara and in the Alto Deba region.
Education for sustainable development (EESD) has been promoted by UNESCO since 1992. In this Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development we are entering into the strategy of the future. The participation of Agenda 2030 is fundamental. In fact, the participation and relevance of the educational community and especially of students are focused on the promotion of responsible and sustainable management, on the construction of diverse frameworks and on a scenario that respects the perspectives of the global world, always following the central axis of these Sustainable Development Goals.
It concerns educational diversity, linguistic diversity and curricular innovation.
"The prominence of the educational community, and especially of the students, are our main axes"
Language policy
Language project
The training offer at Miguel Altuna Vocational Training Centre is multilingual, giving priority to Basque. Depending on the linguistic profile of the students, the Spanish language model is also offered. In addition to this, in each course there is the possibility of teaching two or three modules in English.
Teachers are able to work in Basque and Spanish. The aim is to enable teachers to work with a third language (mainly English).
All of the above is included in the Strategic Plan, and Basque is broken down by areas in the Ulibarri programme.
Plan for the standardisation of Basque language
In recent years, within the teaching of Basque and in relation to the linguistic training of teachers, material and the knowledge and use of Basque among pupils, schools in the Basque Country have taken a significant step forward.
In order to consolidate these steps and make a viable plan for the normalisation of Basque, we have felt the need to implement an Integral Plan.
This plan, as well as containing the partial projects that have been carried out, has also had an influence on the coexistence between the group that makes up the language community (teaching staff, parents, etc.).
This plan must be based on an analysis of the reality of Basque language in the centre. The guidelines and objectives for the coming years will be established on the basis of this analysis. The agreement of all members will be taken into account and the necessary measures and resources will be provided. All the centres grouped in the Ulibarri programme are united in this endeavour through their Language Plans.
More information: Miguel Altuna’s Basque Language Strategic Plan