From the next academic year, students from the municipality of Tinajo will not have to travel to Arrecife or San Bartolomé to study first or second year of baccalaureate. The IES Tinajo already has authorization to teach the last years of secondary education, which "completes the baccalaureate education map on the entire island of Lanzarote", according to Juan Cruz, island director of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Arrecife was the first municipality to teach baccalaureate in its centers. The second was Haría and then Teguise. The last to insert this training offer in the institutes were the municipalities of Yaiza and Tías. Only Tinajo remained, whose secondary education center was inaugurated four years ago and only taught up to the fourth year of ESO. The center has had to wait to consolidate, so that the inclusion of the baccalaureate was authorized. "A center has to be configured. It starts operating with first, then with second up to fourth and when it is consolidated there are minimum student requirements because baccalaureate cannot be given when the groups are insignificant either", assures Juan Cruz, "it is a matter of maturation, when it has been ready, secondary education has been completed".
For the first time, the offer from three-year-old infants to secondary school is closed in the same municipality of Tinajo. "In two years, students will be proposed for the PAU, which will be the first promotion of the university, with boys and girls who have completed their studies without leaving the municipality", added the island director of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, about the benefit that these new teachings will bring to Tinajo. Dozens of teenagers are already registered to start the course after the holidays, in the same way that the teachers who will teach the classes are assigned.
