Benidorm City Council hosts a conference for Education inspectors from across the Community

This Wednesday, the Assembly Hall of Benidorm City Council hosted a conference for the General Inspectorate of Education in which inspectors from across the Valencian Community participated to share experiences and improve their skills. The mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, and the Minister of Education, Universities, and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, participated in the inauguration of this day along with other members of the Municipal Corporation, as well as various senior officials of the Department.

The first mayor welcomed all the participants in this event to the city, highlighting their “fundamental work of supervision and advice” that they carry out and their work as “mediators between educational centers and the Administration.” Likewise, he referred to the educational infrastructure that Benidorm has and the municipal commitment to public education: "We have never authorized a partial plan without having resolved the educational provisions to respond to the needs of its future inhabitants," he stated.

The first mayor has also referred to the inspectors to delve into this idea: “Many of you know that Benidorm is one of the cities with the highest ratio of public education places available at all educational levels, both in the Valencian Community and possibly throughout the State,” he defended. In this sense, Toni Pérez has highlighted the 440 places that make up the municipal offer from 0 to 2 years old, to which are added thirteen public infant and primary schools, one subsidized and two private; five Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training Cycles centers; an Official Language School; an Adult Training Center; or the Music and Dance conservatories, all of this “so that the more than 10,000 residents of compulsory school age that we have in Benidorm have a guaranteed desk in the public school.”

For his part, the Minister of Education, Universities, and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, has highlighted the “transformative power” of education and has also claimed the role of educational inspection “in favor of the general interests of the educational community” and for “giving each person the possibility of developing and using their greatest potential.” “We are going to value all your skills as guarantors of the most precious good we have as a society: education,” he said, after which he offered them all his support to achieve “a free, inclusive, quality, equitable, accurate, accepted and valued by society for its excellence.”