Law of the Andorran School approved by the Hon. General Council at its regular session of day 2 May 1989 Introduction a school is not the end in itself: the State, who entrusted their children, have the right and the duty to define their ambitions and goals, as well as to control it permanently the adaptation.

In accordance with the Declaration of the rights of the bicentennial man and of the citizen, the people and their democratically elected representatives to define the country's cultural and economic ambition. This principle has been included in the declarations of rights, and inspires the entire international public law.

The school is the most noble to achieve that ambition.

The feeling of national identity, citizenship, is deep and complex, and will not be paid to simplificadores reductions. But, as all feeling, only acquires strength when you find support in cultural rationalisations, at the service of a shared vision of the future of the bare minimum.

Throughout the country, the national culture is formed by a set of complex and varied elements: linguistic, historical, religious, geographic and essentially ethical.

The language is a fundamental element. There is no thought without language, and all knowledge is expressed in a language: often, through the language has forged and maintained a national spirit. However, the linguistic identity alone is not enough to create a national consciousness.

The story has a value and a force at least equal to the language, and our history brings together elements that are not found in any other place in the world: what great wealth confers us seven centuries of independence and neutrality.

The geography is, for us, a weakness and a strength at the same time, but, in any case, it is indissociablement linked to our identity.

Our ethics we dictated by history: the Christian tradition and the universal values of human rights.

The civic and moral education, awareness of belonging to a community, are inseparable requirements at all, and even more so in the US that is characterized by a population model so open. It is necessary that the children of the country enjoy the substrate that promotes a sense of national consciousness.

It would be foolish to try to define a school without referring to the economic ambitions of the country has been fixed. Our limitations-we are aware-come certain especially by the geographical situation and the lack of natural resources.

However, we do not lack resources: lightness of the structures, the flexibility of the regulatory and legal framework, increasing decentralization of activities with strong added value, are expectations of a great quality of life. These possibilities will have to enhance and exploit to the hands of Andorra and this imposes on our national school demands of quality and international competitiveness.

In every society the Education ensures the survival and the development of civilization and, at the same time, responds to a single law and inalienable of the person.

In our civilization, humanist and Christian, the child must be educated especially for himself: it is offered to each the full development of his personality, in the physical, intellectual and moral aspect triple. It is a human imperative and a national imperative: we do not have natural riches, our wealth is the man, forged by a culture and a history multiseculars.

Our desire, our ambition is to give each child the most complete training, compatible with their talents and aspirations. The arrangements can be very diverse: the studios have a great variety and the indeterminacy of the future discourages rigid moulds. The dimension of the country we impose limitations, but not resignation.

The guarantee of quality is, in any case, a duty of the State to the responsible authorities, both in front of families as in front of the rest of the citizens, and it corresponds also to the authorities to provide the necessary resources and to form and maintain qualified, without the participation of which is not possible for a quality school.

The primary objective in the short term is the elaboration of a draft General Law of education in Andorra, in order to make it more fair, more effective, coordinated and interrelated, more modern-with the incorporation of scientific and technological advances and more adapted to the dynamics and the needs of today's world.

Inspired by the principles of the right of everyone to education, freedom, tolerance, pluralism, participation of different groups in the educational community, forcing and free basic education, the Andorran education must be able to train, prepare and stimulate our children and young people for the challenge of the future society in the same conditions as the other young Europeans.

As in the previous step, however, it is necessary to proceed to the definition and organization of the Andorran education system, within which integrates the current Andorran school and teaching maternal, you have to first consolidate and in first place as your starting point.

The Andorran education system should be characterized by unity and flexibility in order to provide the students with a cultural background that enables them to adapt to the changes of the modern world, interrelated with other education systems, to make the most of the potential they offer, always ensuring the maintenance of national identity.

The system that regulates the present law, will offer students a network of parish public schools, under the direct dependency of the Ministry of education and culture, and will facilitate trade and the creation of private schools, with the requirements at the time they point.

In this school is professarà the Andorran education, with specific curricula and pedagogical orientations approved by the Government. The Catalan language be used as a normal vehicle of expression.

Although the language of the school is the Catalan, you need to ensure a good knowledge of Spanish and French languages, as they are also languages of relationship and in Andorra. In addition, it will provide the resources necessary to make it possible for students who attend these schools can study a fourth living language, in order to facilitate a smooth relationship with the other European countries and the opening to the universal culture, to the enrichment of the which should contribute from Andorra.

The participation of all sectors concerned in the general programme of teaching, dialogue, advice and the permanent consultation with the


education authorities are essential because the school is not desvinculi of the social reality, and to react with speed and flexibility to the changes that are currently occurring at an accelerated rate. The law gives the institutional means of expression to this participative will.

Finally, you must have a continuous assessment of the results obtained in order to determine to what extent the proposed objectives are reached, in order to correct any deviations, and to control the quality and competitiveness of the Andorran education.

The law regulating the Andorran School wants to be, at the same time, the proclamation of the objectives of the General Council in the field of education and the framework that will progressively to the Government the means to achieve them.

It is not the end but the beginning of a process that intervenes after a slow maturation and reflection initiated with the note-report on the andorranització that approved by the General Council on June 6, 1972.

This process will have to proceed with the enactment of the General Law of education, the development of the Andorran education system, with the trading with the co-princes and the educational authorities of the neighbouring countries and the community. You will need to accompany it, in short, a strong and tenacious of the Government, not just for law enforcement but also to make the necessary transitional measures converge towards the goals that have been set.

For these reasons, the General Council of the valleys approves the following title and Law. General provisions Article first Andorran school mission is to give all children of Andorra the training that will allow them to integrate into our community as adults free, responsible citizens and qualified professionals. Shall be governed by the provisions of this law and the regulations that develop.

The second article 1. The centers that make up the Andorran School can be both public and private.

2. Are the Centers that depend directly on the Ministry of education and culture. Private Centres are those the owner of which is a natural or legal person of a private character.

Article third All Andorran schools will develop their activities aimed at achieving the following objectives: to) Ensure the training of children and young people at different levels of education.

b) to promote and encourage the personal development of students in the framework of the culture and of the Andorran identity.

c) contribute to the formation and enrichment of the cultural elements and specific to Andorran society.

d) train children and young people in the respect of fundamental rights and freedoms and the exercise of tolerance and freedom, within the democratic principles of coexistence and pluralism.

e) to promote the acquisition of intellectual habits and working for the proper exercise of professional activities.

f) Raised the behaviours of creativity, adaptability and autonomy of the predictable post-industrial societies.

g) Stimulate the exercise of activities to develop the spirit of sport.

h) Transmit scientific knowledge, technical, artistic, religious and ethical, humanistic.

and Encourage the participation of youth in the) social and civic.

j) Adopt as its own the official language of the country, setting as a priority goal for students to achieve a correct domain and a nuanced and rich use of oral and written Catalan.

k) Ensure to the students a good knowledge of Spanish and French languages gradually, so as to enable them the oral and written a fourth living language.

Fourth article the Andorran School will give the maternal level education until secondary. The Government will decide the progressive extension of the levels of education imparted, subject to compliance with the provisions of the first additional provision.

Article fifth within the framework established in this law and the regulations that develop, the Andorran public schools enjoy the autonomy to organize cultural, social, civic, sporting activities, and school and, if necessary, to adapt its programs.

Article six the Ministry of education and culture, through the inspection, shall ensure compliance with the legal provisions, will advise the Centres and monitor the operation. At the same time, will evaluate the educational performance of each of the Centres and will propose, if necessary, the appropriate measures and pedagogical orientations.

Article seventh different levels that make up the educational community participate in the programming of the Andorran education and will be integrated in the different organs of participation listed in this law to develop an effective cooperation between the education administration and the sectors affected.

Title II. Of the staff.

Article eighth 1. All teaching and non-teaching, which renders its services to the public, will be hired in Andorran labour scheme by the Ministry of education and Culture would depend on, even though it will play its functions under the direct dependence of the Director or head of the educational Centre.

2. The Ministry of education and culture will make public announcement of vacancies of teachers and shall specify the qualifications required for access.

3. The Ministry of education and culture will put at the disposal of all our teachers the means to their ongoing training.

Title III. Of the governing bodies, and advisory participation Article 9 1. Each of the Centres of the Andorran School will have a responsible manager or public education, appointed by the Minister of education and culture at the proposal of the Director of the Department to which you refer to the following article.

2. the functions of the Director will be responsible for the educational planning and direction of the activities of the Centre, the coordination of the teaching staff and those other tasks that may be assigned by regulatory provisions or by order of the Director of the Department.

Article 10th the Minister of education and culture shall appoint a Director of the Department that directly depend on him and that made the tasks of coordination and assessment of the Directors or responsible for each of the Educational Centres that make up the Andorran School public.

Article 11 the Government will determine, if necessary, other organs uni-personal and the procedure for appointing them.

Article XII 1. It will create a Council of schools in which participate all estates that comprise the educational community, which will be compulsory consultation for the preparation of the annual general programme of the schools.

2. the Board of the schools will monitor the general activity of the Centres in the administrative aspects and


teachers, and shall exercise any other function attributed to regulations.

3. Will be presided over by the Minister of education and culture or to the person in whom he may delegate.

4. The composition and the operation will be set by the regulations.

Article 13 1. The participation of teachers in government schools is the cloister, which will be chaired by the Director of the Department.

2. The Senate shall be competent to program the teaching activities of the different Centres, for the coordination of the functions of guidance and mentoring of students, to propose initiatives of experimentation and pedagogical research and to carry out any other activity which it is entrusted.

The fourteenth article 1. The Consell Andorrà de education (C.A.D.E.) is the highest organ of collegiate participation of different sectors of the educational community for the general programming of education and advisory and consulting the Government.

2. The President of the C.A.D.E. will be the Minister of education and culture or another person appointed by the renowned Government, at the proposal of the Minister of education and culture.

3. The C.A.D.E. pedagogical proposals made to improve the efficiency, performance and the quality of the educational system, and will draw up studies in order to experiment and investigate new educational ideas and methods of study.

4. The C.A.D.E. will draw up an annual report on the Andorran education system.

5. The C.A.D.E. be carried out periodically the pedagogical assessment of the Andorran schools. For the exercise of these functions will be created in this Council a Commission with a permanent character, which will provide the necessary means to carry out this task effectively.

15th article the Government subject to consultation of the C.A.D.E. projects for the development of educational laws, the general programming of the Andorran education, and the General provisions relating to the Organization of the Andorran education system. You will be able to submit it too, in order to advice, any other question relating to teaching and education.

The sixteenth article 1. The composition and functioning of the C.A.D.E.

regulations may be established.

2. You will be able to incorporate the C.A.D.E., permanently or for specific topics, foreign experts of recognised prestige, appointed by the Government at the proposal of the Minister of education and culture.

Transitional provisions First within a maximum period of one year counting from the publication of the present law, the Government will draw up the General Law of education in Andorra, taking into account the principles and objectives enshrined in the preamble to the present law.

Second In the three-month period since the publication of this law, the Government will dictate the rules of operation, organisation and economic regime of the Andorran School, and the regime of its staff.

Third In a maximum period of six months the Government will draw up and publish the Andorran education system.

Additional provisions First the Government will take appropriate measures to ensure that the courses taught in the Andorran School and the corresponding academic titles are approved and validated, with the correlatives of France and Spain and in the framework of the stablished E.e.c.

Second schools that teach special education will be subject to specific legislative regulation, whenever possible, the integration of the students in ordinary schools.

Third, the Ministry of education and culture will restructure its administrative services and, if necessary, create new administrative units to exercise the functions entrusted to him by this law.

Casa de la Vall, 2 May 1989, The Syndic General