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Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. By ownership of centre

Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Total Catalonia. School year 2017/2018
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 246 4,516 64,177
Dance 65 390 10,895
Dramatic arts (2) 2 201 431
Plastic arts and design 54 1,161 5,052
Higher design studies (3) 9 0 2,399
Catering and conservation 1 24 146
Languages (4) 45 627 49,304
Sport 56 605 4,741
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Public sector Catalonia. School year 2017/2018
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 170 3,011 47,901
Dance 10 65 1,743
Dramatic arts (2) 1 129 291
Plastic arts and design 41 789 4,550
Higher design studies (3) 7 0 1,567
Catering and conservation 1 24 146
Languages (4) 45 627 49,304
Sport 24 404 3,037
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Private sector Catalonia. School year 2017/2018
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 76 1,505 16,276
Dance 55 325 9,152
Dramatic arts 1 72 140
Plastic arts and design 13 372 502
Higher design studies (2) 2 0 832
Catering and conservation 0 0 0
Languages 0 0 0
Sport 32 201 1,704
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.

Last update: July 28, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Special regime education
Education that is not integrated in the levels, stages or cycles of the general regime. They have their own structure and levels, and can be anything from elementary education or equivalent studies to diplomas or degrees. They can be studied at the same time as the general regime or special regime.

Methodological aspects

The data on infant, primary and secondary education is taken from an exploitation of the data provided by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Education or teaching centres at all education levels. The public sector includes data for the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education and other public administrations, while the private sector deals with privately owned centres.

In 1990 the Law for general ordering of the education system (LOGSE) was passed, which modifies the previous education system (LGE) of 1970. In the 1991/92 academic year the teaching approved by the new law was gradually introduced and the 2000/01 academic year was the first in which none of the teaching relating to the previous education system was still in existence.

However, the two education models coexisted over the long period of experimentation and implantation of the new education law.

The data on centres and teaching staff is given, on the one hand, for infant and primary education as a whole, and on the other, for secondary education, although it is often the case that centres and teachers overlap in terms of the different levels given.

The centres have been counted as many times as the number of teachings they provide.

Data are provisional.