Dual education will promote agreements between companies and high school campuses

Laura Poy Solano

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, February 18, 2022, p. 18

With a new Secretary Agreement for the delivery of dual education that allows for agreements between high school campuses and companies, the incorporation of direct learning with updated technology will be strengthened, said Juan Pablo Arroyo, Undersecretary of Higher Secondary Education, who highlighted the case of a company in Querétaro that received 40 high school students, who participate in the manufacturing processes of the Tesla motor.

It recognizes that one of the great challenges not only for the provision of dual education, but also for upper secondary education, is the infrastructure of its schools, since in many cases it faces a deterioration of its facilities and equipment, which prevents students have access to state-of-the-art technology in which they could specialize.

In interview with the dayadded that they already have the support of the chambers of commerce and industry of Germany, France and the Nordic countries to promote the participation of students in their companies in our nation, which ranges from the food to the agricultural sector.

What’s more, We are going to rescue the concept that professionals are going to teach high school, that is, they not only live from teaching, which is an original concept of Gabino Barreda’s project in the 19th century, professionals were going to teach their experiences to young people.

The same happens with dual education, since companies will be able to determine the number of students they can attend. He recalled that since the past administration the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) has participated in dual training, but it was the CCE that handled the registry and charged the companies to bring them young people, and that was eliminated.

With this new proposal, he indicated, it is a meeting between the company and the school. They register on our platform and the CCE is going to promote it, but we are going to spread that it does not have to be covered by the young person assigned..

Example that enriches

He cited as an example that in Yucatan, students of the technological baccalaureate They went to a honey exporter to see how the product is processed, and the entire process of rotating activities. It is a company that exports honey to Europe and these young people are already learning how it is made there, and the idea is that they can take that knowledge with them for the benefit of their communities.