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EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Spain

Organisational Options and Alternative Structures in Non-Higher Secondary and Post-secondary Education

Among the main organisational options and alternative structures in secondary and post-secondary non-higher education, the following can be highlighted: 

Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education Programme (PEB)- Collaboration Agreement with the Spanish Delegation of the British Council Foundation

Curriculum, subjects, number of hours

The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, after consultation with the Autonomous Communities, is responsible for establishing the corresponding vocational training qualifications, as well as the basic aspects of their curricula. Since May 2014, different basic vocational training qualifications and their curricula for the whole State have been approved. For more information, see TodoFP.es.

Pupils/students assessment

The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training regulates the academic evaluation and accreditation processes of students of vocational training of the education system for the whole State. 

The education authorities develop these aspects for their respective regions. 

Characteristics of the evaluation of learning:

Assessment criteria (Criterios de evaluación)

These are defined as the references that indicate the level of student performance in the learning situations or activities to which the specific competences of each area, field or subject refer at a given moment in the learning process.

Bodies with permanent headquarters

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

Avda. Reyes Católicos, 4

28040 Madrid, Spain

Tel: 900 20 30 54

centro.informacion@aecid.es

Asociación Nacional de Centros y Proveedores de e-learning (ANCYPEL)

C/ Orense, 20 - 1º

28020 Madrid, España 

Tel: +34 91 555 31 70

General regulations

2026

There have been no reforms in this area in 2026.

2025

New Standards of Professional Competences

In June 2025, a Royal Decree (Real Decreto 532/2025) was approved incorporating new profiles linked to emerging sectors into the National Catalogue of Professional Competence Standards and updating the former competence units created in 2003. The regulation entered into force the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette.