La experiencia de las Unidades de Formación e Inserción Laboral (UFIL) de la Comunidad de Madrid

Authors

Julio Rogero AnayaSalto de línea Maestro y Director de la UFIL Margarita Salas (Fuenlabrada). Miembro del Movimiento de Renovación Pedagógica (MRP) Escuela Abierta.Salto de línea Salto de línea José Luis Gordo BlancoSalto de línea Maestro y Director de la UFIL Puerta Bonita (Madrid) Miembro del MRP Acción Educativa.

Abstract

The Experience of Units for Training and Vocational Integration (UFIL) in the Autonomous Community of MadridSalto de línea Salto de línea Social Guarantee Schemes, created by the LOGSE (1990) are intended to students who have failed in compulsory secondary schooling (ESO).These Schemes offer them Vocational Training together with General Basic Education. Units for Training and Vocational Integration (UFIL) are Social Guarantee specific institutions located in different areas in Madrid. They are aimed at students in social disadvantage and risk.There are ten such centres in the Autonomous Community of Madrid with the same features and organizational model.All of them follow a very similar work pattern.Salto de línea In the Autonomous Community of Madrid an importantnumber of students over 13 are not attending school .The EDIS ( Equipo de Investigaciones sociológicas) report in year 2000 indicates that 9% of young people at the age of 14 and 15 are either unschooled or do not attend school every day;while 6% of those between 15 and 17 are out of the system, regardless of those who have been registered as school failure.Nowadays there are not available data which show an improvement of this situation.

Keywords

Units for Training and Vocational Integration (UFIL), young people at the risk of social exclusion, initial professional qualification, sociolaboral integration of the young people, second opportunity schools.