There’s been a glimmer of hope at the Joan Ramon Benaprès Institute this week, after the Department of Education announced that, if they get the required number of students, they will be able to maintain, at least during next year, the Superior Degree course of Guidance, Tourist Information and Assistance.
It is a course that the institute has been offering for two years and that, at the end of April, the Department had informed them that they could not continue to offer it, due to low enrolment.
After a ‘struggle’ during the past months, it finally seems that the centre will be able to maintain the studies that they consider ‘essential’ for a tourist town and region such as Sitges and the Garraf.
Since they were notified that they could not continue with the degree next year, the high school started working to keep it, preparing a report to show ‘the work that went into it’, said Iván Martínez, a tutor on the centre’s Tourist Accommodation Degree. The institute also drew attention to the business fabric of the town, exerting pressure through the media, and addressing the ‘Territorial Services of Education’ in Penedès, together with the UGT union.
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