Under the motto, 'Do not let your chair is empty', the session promote debates and discussions with students of colleges and local high school to prevent truancy.
The conference incorporated into this edition information on educational pathways and career opportunities to inform students about all the possibilities offered by the educational system.
The City Council of Puerto Lumbreras, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment, has launched the seventh Awareness Campaign Against Truancy in schools in the locality.
The campaign, which is presented under the motto "Do not let your chair is empty ', aims to raise awareness among school students and schools lumbrerenses to avoid unexcused absences at school and neglect their studies.
"Since the session lumbrerense and in collaboration with the Autonomous Region, one year we have launched this campaign that not only seeks to prevent truancy, but in turn try to motivate students and explain all the opportunities and alternatives offered by the current education system for subsequent labor market, "said the Councillor for Education, Isabel García.
Thus, in this seventh edition of the Awareness Campaign Against Truancy include various seminars given by professionals as a psychologist, a social worker and the local police sergeant from Puerto Lumbreras, Andrew Lledó.
In addition, this year's conference will focus on students in sixth grade elementary and first of the ESO, and also incorporate information on truancy, rights and duties of minors and related blocks as new career and educational pathways for encourage "the motivation of students."
Finally, schools that participate in this new edition of the campaign are the Institute of Nogalte Rambla, and Assumption colleges Jordan, Juan Antonio López Alcaraz and Sacred Heart.
Truancy Program
The session lumbrerenses promotes truancy program which is part of the Awareness Campaign VII.
In addition to this initiative, the program includes various activities in this area as an educational intervention project consists of training modules aimed at socially disadvantaged children, and Initial Vocational Training Program targeting young people who have not completed compulsory education.
In this sense, the program is supplemented by grants for education and school transport.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras