More than 50 years learning from nature



The Escola EFA Quintanes is a private educational centre subsidised by the Department of Education of the Government of Catalonia.
Through our teaching and training programmes, we aim to contribute to the professional, cultural and social promotion of the rural environment and, in particular, the agricultural, livestock, gardening, forestry, landscaping and natural environment management sectors.
The key to our success is our accompaniment in the construction of each young person’s personal, professional and intellectual project. School, trainers, business and family, all together in order to make young entrepreneurs.
The Quintanes estate is located in Les Masies de Voltregà (Osona) and covers an area of 280 hectares with fields, woods and meadows. The central building is an 18th century manor house in privileged natural surroundings.

It has pavilions with classrooms, laboratories and workshops, as well as a student residence, a canteen with its own kitchen, a large garden area, sports facilities, a swimming pool and recreational areas.

The teaching system that we follow in the regulated studies of the Escola EFA Quintanes is what we call the pedagogy of alternation, which is fundamentally based on alternating training periods in the school with periods in the workplace.

This system follows the model of the MFR in France, with the necessary modifications to adapt to current legislation and needs.

Pedagogy
of alternation

+2.400

Qualified Quintanes alumni

1.970

55 years training & teaching professionals

20

Average students per class

Such
is Quintanes

¤ To offer a quality educational model that facilitates the exercise of educational rights. This exercise, led by the social initiative, is understood as a service to society.

¤ The Escola EFA Quintanes cultivates the skills (attitudes) of thinking and reflection so that students become more rigorous in their work, more critical in their thinking and fairer in their judgements.

¤ In close cooperation with families, to educate and train citizens with a solid foundation of knowledge, hard work and a spirit of service who will enter professional and social life with initiative.

¤ The first responsibility for education always lies with the family. Application for admission to the Escola EFA Quintanes presupposes knowledge of and free acceptance of this ideology.

¤ The school collaborates with families in the education of their children and from the families expects a determined attitude of collaboration to ensure a quality education.

¤ We try to make the most of each student’s abilities by offering them the most appropriate learning possibilities (guidance, means, resources, help) and procedures.

¤ Offering personalised attention to each family, to each student, through tutorials, interviews with families and the managers of alternation.

¤ Providing this education to any family, regardless of their social or economic situation.

¤ Fully respecting personal freedom by positively teaching respect for it.

¤ The school does not belong to any religious denomination; freedom of conscience is respected.

¤ A Christian and spiritual formation is offered to families and pupils who want it, in accordance with the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

¤ The ownership of the school entrusts priests of the Opus Dei prelature of the Catholic Church to manage the doctrinal and spiritual formation activities that take place at the Escola EFA Quintanes.

¤ The Escola EFA Quintanes considers the following to be fundamental values to be promoted in its educational work: a job well done, care for material things, the development of human virtues, the spirit of respect for others in friendly coexistence, a constructive critical spirit and the development of the aptitudes of each pupil.

Transparency

L’Escola EFA Quintanes, en el seu compromís d’oferir un servei de la màxima qualitat als seus alumnes, disposa des del juny de 2015 de la certificació ISO 9001:2015 en la prestació de serveis de formació professional de grau mitjà i superior, mitjançant el sistema d’alternança i de formació no reglada. La implantació d’aquest sistema de gestió de qualitat i la millora contínua tant en els ensenyaments reglats com en els no reglats que imparteix l’escola va orientada a aconseguir l’excel·lència per a tots els alumnes que passen per les seves aules.

Podeu veure el certificat ISO 9001:2015 en format PDF clicant aquí

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