Royal Decree 1487/1994, of 1 July, amending and supplementing Royal Decree 986/1991 of 14 June, approving the timetable for the implementation of the new management system of the education system, sets out the dates in which the teaching of the compulsory secondary education stage is to be introduced, in general, and the teaching of the seventh and eighth courses of basic general education shall no longer be taught; and First and second of the Unified and Polivalent Baccalaureate and the first vocational training grade.

On the other hand, Royal Decree 1007/1991 of 14 June (amended and extended by Royal Decree 894/1995 of 2 June) and Royal Decree 1345/1991 of 6 September (amended and extended by Royal Decree 1390/1995 of 4 May 1991). (August), respectively, provide for the minimum teaching and curriculum for compulsory secondary education.

On the other hand, the anticipated introduction of compulsory secondary education teaching during three academic courses, taking into account the experience gained from it, and the provisions of the provisions of the provisions of the It is necessary to make some improvements to the academic management measures adopted during this process, as well as to adapt them to subsequent legislative development in order to shape the final structure of the stage.

Thus, the present Ministerial Order regulates the conditions under which the implementation of the teaching of the stage will be carried out from the 1996/1997 course, updating those laid down in the Order of 8 July 1993, as regards the conditions for the access and permanence of the students, the rules applicable in matters of evaluation, promotion and qualification for the students who cure these lessons, the distribution of the weekly teaching schedule of each course among the different areas and subjects that form the curriculum of the stage, as well as the regulation of the application, authorization and delivery of optional materials at the stage. At the same time, the basic conditions and characteristics to be met by the programmes of curricular diversification that are put in place in the centres as a measure of attention to the diversity of educational needs of the students are established.

By virtue of the above, this Ministry, in the exercise of the authorization granted to it by the final disposition of Royal Decree 1487/1994, of July 1, and the final disposition of Royal Decree 1345/1991, of 6 of September, and prior report of the State School Council, has arranged:

First. This Order will be applied in the centers where the teaching of compulsory secondary education is taught, within the scope of the Ministry of Education and Science.

CHAPTER I

Pupils access

Second. -According to the provisions of Royal Decree 1345/1991 of 6 September ("Official State Gazette" of 13), which establishes the curriculum for compulsory secondary education, as amended and extended by the Royal Decree 1390/1995 of 4 August ('Official State Gazette ' of 19 September) students will be incorporated at this stage, after having completed primary education, in the calendar year in which they are 12 years of age, unless they have remained a (a) more years in Primary Education under the provisions of Article 11 of Royal Decree 1006/1991, of 14 June (Official Gazette of the State of 26) laying down the minimum teaching requirements for primary education, or except as provided for in Royal Decree 696/1995 of 28 April 1995 (Official Gazette of the State of 2 June), Education of pupils with special educational needs.

Third. -The process of admission of students will be in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 377/1993 of March 12 ("Official State Gazette" of the 24), which regulates the admission of students to Centers held with funds In the case of the Court of First State, the Court held that the Court of First instance, in the case of the Court of First State, had the right to be entitled to the right to be entitled to the right to be entitled to the right to be entitled to the right to a child's education. 30).

Fourth. -1. The maximum number of pupils per classroom in each of the courses of compulsory secondary education shall be 30, without prejudice to the provisions of the single article, paragraph 9 of Royal Decree 1487/1994 of 1 July 1994 ("Official State Gazette"). 28).

2. In the case of schools that will escort students with permanent special educational needs, the maximum number of students per classroom will be 25 in those units in which they will be escorted.

CHAPTER II

Evaluation, promotion, and certification

Fifth. -1. With regard to the evaluation and promotion of pupils who are to be taught, the provisions of the Order of 30 October 1992 ("Official State Gazette" of 11 November 1992), laying down the basic elements of the Directive, will apply. the reports of evaluation of the General Regime's teachings governed by the Organic Law 1/1990 of 3 October of General Ordination of the Educational System, as well as the formal requirements arising from the evaluation process that are necessary for to ensure the mobility of pupils, as amended by the Order of 2 April 1993 ("Official Journal"). of the 15), and as laid down in the Order of 12 November 1992 ("Official State Gazette" of 21) on the assessment of compulsory secondary education and the resolution of 28 May 1993 ("Official State Gazette" of 4 May 1992). (june), from the Secretary of State for Education, on criteria and procedures for deciding on the promotion and certification of students in compulsory secondary education. The Order of 14 February 1996 ("Official State Gazette" of 23) will also apply to the assessment of pupils with special educational needs who are taught by the general scheme established in the Organic Law. 1/1990, of 3 October, of General Management of the Educational System.

2. With regard to the evaluation process, it will also be applicable to the Order of 28 August 1995 ("Official State Gazette" of 20 September) which regulates the procedure to guarantee the right of students to Compulsory secondary education and secondary education to be assessed in accordance with objective criteria.

CHAPTER III

Schedules

Sixth. -1. The weekly schedule for each of the courses of the first cycle of compulsory secondary education will be twenty-eight periods, except in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, where it will be thirty and a half periods.

2. The weekly schedule for each of the courses of the second cycle of compulsory secondary education will be thirty periods, except in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, where it will be thirty-two reading periods.

3. The distribution of the weekly schedule for each course of compulsory secondary education shall be in accordance with Annex I. In the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, it shall be in accordance with the provisions of Annex II. For those students who, as established in the eleventh point. 2 of this Order, choosing to pursue a second optional subject on a voluntary basis, the weekly schedule shall comprise two more periods for the imparting of those teachings.

Seventh. -1. In order to reduce the number of areas and subjects to be cured at the same time, the areas and subjects of which the weekly schedule is two periods of time, with the exception of Physical Education, may be organized four months.

2. To this end, in the first cycle, the area of Plastic and Visual Education will be taught in the first course of the cycle and the area of Technology in the second course. However, in secondary schools, according to their criteria for the organisation of timetables, the areas of Plastic and Visual Education and Technology in the first cycle may be programmed annually for two periods of time. weekly in each course of the cycle. In this case, both areas may also be organised on a four-monthly basis.

3. In the third course of compulsory secondary education, the centres will be able to organise the teaching of the area of "Nature Sciences" in two different subjects, "Biology and Geology" and "Physics and Chemistry", which may be programmed in character four months. In any case, the area shall maintain its unitary character for evaluation purposes.

4. In the fourth, the area of "Nature Sciences" will be organized in two different subjects, "Biology and Geology" and "Physics and Chemistry", the evaluation of both subjects being carried out independently.

5. In the fourth year, students will choose two of the following options: "Biology and Geology", "Plastic and Visual Education", "Physics and Chemistry", "Music" and "Technology".

Eighth. -The area of "Mathematics", which will be attended by all students, will be organized in the fourth course in two different varieties, as provided in the Annex to Royal Decree 1345/1991, of 6 September, for which establishes the Compulsory Secondary Education Curriculum.

CHAPTER IV

Optives

Ninth. -1. The provision of optional subjects at the Centres should be used to develop the general skills referred to in the objectives of the stage, to facilitate the transition of young people into active and adult life, and to extend the educational and educational provision of young people. Possibilities of orientation within it.

2. The number of optional subjects to be cured will be one in each of the first and third courses, and two in the fourth. However, for certain pupils, and depending on the conditions laid down in point 1 (2) of this Order, there may be the possibility of two optional subjects on the third course.

Tenth. -1. The offer of optional subjects from the Centres, in each course and along the cover, must be balanced between the different fields of knowledge, and, in the Institutes of Secondary Education, between the different Departments which responsibility for the delivery of the same.

2. The optional supply materials required in all the centres are a Second Foreign Language during the whole stage and Classical Culture and a subject of professional initiation in the second cycle.

11th. -1. During the first cycle, the student will preferably take the Second Foreign Language as an optional subject. However, at the request of the parents or the Tutor of the group and, in any event, after consultation with the Department of Guidance, the Director of the Centre may authorise the student to take a different optional subject, which shall be offered by the Centre. of the following:

A matter of the sociolinguistic scope.

A matter of the scientific-mathematical sphere.

A matter of the field of technology-plastic.

These subjects will enable us to strengthen or deepen, as appropriate, the capabilities set out in the general objectives which, for this cycle, will establish the Stage Curricular Project.

To this end, the optional subjects of Communication, Mathematics Workshop and Craft Workshop can be used, for which the teachers will adapt the curriculum of these subjects, established in the Resolution of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal of 10 June 1992 (Official Journal of the State of 19), in particular as regards the subject matter of the Communication, to the particular conditions of the centres.

2. Students who in the third course of the study as an optional subject of the Second Foreign Language will be able to combine their study, on a voluntary basis, with that of another optional subject matter, provided that the organisation of the Centre so permit. This second optional subject will, for all intents and purposes, have the same consideration as the other optional subjects.

3. In the fourth year, the student will have to take at least one of the required fields as an optional subject.

12th. -1. The planning of the optional Second Foreign Language will be a stage. However, in order for pupils to be able to start studies of a second foreign language at the beginning of the second stage of the stage, the centres will programme the teaching of this subject at two different levels; one for those pupils who come from the first cycle of the stage and the other for those who are incorporated for the first time, in the second cycle, to the teachings of that foreign language.

2. Students may be enrolled in the teaching of the Second Foreign Language in any of the courses of the stage, and at any of their levels in the second cycle, provided that, in the judgment of the teaching staff, they have the appropriate level of education. allows them to achieve the objectives set for the stage.

3. The curriculum for the subject of the Second Foreign Language is the one adopted in Annex I to the Resolution of 10 June 1992, by the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, which approves the optional subjects for their delivery in education. Compulsory Secondary.

4. The students will be able to study the subject of Classical Culture as an option in one or two courses of the second stage of the stage. In the first case, the students will be able to follow the studies scheduled for any of the years of the cycle. The curriculum of this subject is established by the Resolution of 2 November 1994 ("Official State Gazette" of 16), of the Directorate General of Pedagogical Renewal, which approves the curriculum of the subject of Classical Culture for its In the second cycle of compulsory secondary education.

5. The subjects of professional initiation may be programmed for their development in one or two courses of the second cycle. When the subject is scheduled for development in the two courses of the cycle, the students may either pursue the course or follow the studies scheduled for any one of them.

6. The other optional subjects shall be programmed for development along a course. However, the centres may offer the same optional subject matter in different courses for those pupils who have not previously attended the courses.

13th. -1. The optional subjects of professional initiation, which may be submitted by the students in the second cycle, will have the specific objective of facilitating their transition to active life and their professional orientation through a content offering. (a) basic training and activities for the introduction of specific vocational training courses.

2. Professional initiation subjects shall be developed by the centres as practical subjects whose contents shall be related to the supply of training cycles in the middle grade of the centre itself or with the socio-economic characteristics and production of the environment. In the case of centres which do not teach specific vocational training courses, the subjects of professional initiation may develop content related to medium-grade training courses which are provided in nearby centres. The planning and development of these subjects will be carried out with the collaboration of the Department of Guidance and in accordance with the plan of academic and professional orientation.

3. The institutions shall develop a maximum of professional initiation subjects related to the average degree of training courses given to the number of different professional families with which those training cycles are related, and a maximum of a subject in relation to the socio-economic and productive environment of the centre.

4. In any case, the optional subjects of professional initiation must be authorized by the General Directorate of Pedagogical Renewal according to the Directorate General of Professional Training Reglado and Educational Promotion. The application for authorisation shall be in accordance with the provisions of point 14 of this Order. For the design of the curriculum of these subjects, the centres may use the general framework set out in Annex II to the Resolution of 10 June 1992, from the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal.

14th. -1. The offer of optional subjects whose curriculum has been established by the General Directorate of Pedagogical Renewal, which are listed in Annex III to this Order, will not require prior authorization.

2. The Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal will be able to modify and expand the repertoire of optional subjects, mainly from the contributions and suggestions that the centers themselves make, as the experience advises. The Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal may also issue instructions for the development of the provisions on optional matters in this Order.

3. Applications for the authorisation of the optional subjects which so require must be processed, on a proposal from the Southern Ccloister, through the respective Provincial Directorates or Territorial Sub-Directorates before 15 February preceding the year. the commencement of the course in which the delivery of these materials is proposed, for supervision by the Educational Inspection Service. Applications shall be accompanied by:

(a) The curriculum of the optional subject in which the basic objectives and content are at least presented.

b) Materials and educational means available for the development of the proposed material.

c) Qualification of teachers to be taught, as well as, in the Institutes of Secondary Education, Department of the Center that will be responsible for their development and availability of teachers.

(d) In the case of matters of professional initiation, the time field for which they have been programmes shall be indicated, as well as, in the case of subjects linked to specific vocational training courses, their relationship with the medium-grade training cycles which are provided at the centre or, where appropriate, in nearby centres.

15th. -1. The Educational Inspection Services shall monitor applications for optional subjects from the centres according to the following criteria:

a) Adequation of the teachings of the subject to the characteristics of the center and the needs of the students.

(b) Balance of the supply of optional subjects between the different fields of knowledge, with a view to providing students with a range of possibilities to extend their training and contribute to their academic orientation; and professional.

c) Contribution of these teachings to the achievement of the objectives of the stage.

d) Adequation of the curriculum itself of the optional subject, checking that it addresses contents that develop globalized or functional learning different from those contemplated in the areas of the curriculum or in other subjects optives.

e) Qualification of the faculty that is proposed to develop it and guarantee of continuity in the delivery of the matter.

f) The suitability of the available teaching material.

g) Hourly availability of teachers.

2. In the light of its monitoring, the Education Inspectorate will inform the Directors of the centres of the changes which need to be made in the proposal for an option to meet the criteria and conditions laid down in the Directive. this Order.

3. Once supervised by the Educational Inspection Services, the Provincial Directorates and Territorial Subdirectorates will refer to the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal before April 15 the authorization files accompanied by the report of the Inspectorate.

4. In the case of optional subjects of professional initiation linked to specific vocational training, the report of the Inspection Service on such subjects shall include the professional family and the training cycle/s the average degree to which such an option relates.

5. The subjects approved by the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Vocational Training in Reglado and Educational Promotion, may be taught in successive courses without the need for a new the conditions under which they were authorised, in particular as referred to in paragraph (c) of point 14 of this Order, are not amended.

16th.-In centres supported by public funds, the teachings of each optional subject can only be given to a minimum number of 15 pupils. However, for the situations referred to in point 11 (1) of this Order or where the peculiarities of the centre so require or special circumstances so advise, the Provincial Directorates and Subdirectorates Territorial, after the Education Inspection Service, may authorize the teaching of optional subjects to a smaller number of students. Similarly, provided that there is an hourly availability of teachers, the teaching of the Second Foreign Language and Classical Culture may be authorized to a smaller number of students.

Seventeenth. The evaluation of the optional subjects will be carried out in a similar way to the rest of the areas and subjects of the curriculum and according to the provisions of the Order of 12 November 1992 on evaluation in the Compulsory Secondary Education.

CHAPTER V

Curriculum diversification programs

Eighteenth. -1. As set out in Article 18 of Royal Decree 1345/1991 of 6 September establishing the Compulsory Secondary Education Curriculum, it will be possible to establish at this stage the diversification of the curriculum which will be the objective of the students reach, by means of an appropriate methodology and a provision of the contents adapted to their characteristics and needs, the general capabilities of the stage and, therefore, obtain the degree of Graduate in Education Secondary.

2. These programmes of curricular diversification may be accessed, subject to a psycho-pedagogical assessment, the student and his/her parents, and the report of the Education Inspection Service, pupils aged 16 and over or those who are comply with the course of the year in which the course starts and which in previous courses have been met with widespread learning difficulties.

Nineteenth. The duration of the programs of curricular diversification will be, in general, two years. A year-long curriculum diversification programmes may be established for those pupils who are enrolled after the fourth compulsory secondary education course has been completed.

20th. -1. Curriculum diversification programmes will include specific areas that will be organised on the one hand; around the linguistic and social field, developing content that will be selected based on the curriculum in the area of science. Social, Geography and History, Ethics, the area of Spanish Language and Literature, and, in the case of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, the area of Catalan Language and Literature and, on the other hand, around the scientific-technological field, with selected contents of the curricula of the areas of the sciences of the Nature, Mathematics and Technology

2. The programme of diversification to be followed by each student will be supplemented by three areas of the common curriculum, excluding those that are part of the specific areas, which are best adapted to the education team and the Department of Guidance. characteristics and needs of the student, with the curricular adaptations that were accurate. Four areas may be selected if one of them is Technology, in which case the corresponding contents will not be included in the scientific-technological field. The programme shall also include optional subjects of the general offer of the centre or specifically designed for this purpose, so that the final configuration of the programme will respond, overall, to the general objectives of the stage and its contents. keep the necessary balance.

Twenty first. -1. At the end of the duration of the programme of curricular diversification, if the student has achieved, overall and by an integrative evaluation of all the subjects and subjects, the objectives set out in it, he will receive the Graduate in Secondary Education.

2. In any case, and like the rest of the students of the stage, at the end of the program the student will receive an accreditation of the center in which will consist of the years completed and the qualifications obtained in the different areas and subjects, as well as the Council of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Parliament.

Twenty-second. -For the Secretary of State of Education, the appropriate instructions will be given to guide the elaboration and implementation of the programs of curricular diversification in the centers.

CHAPTER VI

Teachings of religion and study activities

alternatives

Twenty-third. -1. As provided for in Article 3 of Royal Decree 2438/1994 of 16 December 1994 (Official State Gazette of 26 January 1995), which regulates the teaching of religion, the parents or guardians of pupils, or themselves if they are older age, shall, voluntarily, demonstrate to the management of the centre at the beginning of the stage or in the first assignment of the student to the centre his wish to pursue the teachings of religion, without prejudice to the decision to be modified at the beginning of each School year. This decision will be expressly sought by the schools in the first student's registration at the centre or at the beginning of the stage.

2. The organisation of the teaching of religion as regards the content, assessment, selection of curricular materials and the designation of teachers will be in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 2438/1994 of 16 December 1994. regulates the teaching of religion, as well as in the Orders for which the curriculum of the area of Catholic Religion is established or the publication of the curricula of the religious religious teaching or Islamic religious teaching is available and, in his case, in the Conventions signed by the State, and the corresponding religious confessions.

Twenty-fourth. -1. For students who have not chosen to follow religion, the centres will organise alternative study activities in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 2438/1994 of 16 December 1994.

2. The activities of studying alternatives to the teachings of religion will be organized in accordance with the provisions of the Order of 3 August 1995 ("Official State Gazette" of 1 September) and in the Resolutions of 16 August 1995 of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal ("Official State Gazette" of 6 September, corrigendum to the "Official Gazette of the State" of the 12), which develops it.

Additional provision first. -Teachers in a situation declared to be extinct and not integrated in the Teaching Bodies established in the Organic Law 1/1990 of 3 October, of General Ordination of the Educational System, may to provide optional secondary education in compulsory secondary education related to the areas or subjects that are currently being taught. To this end, they will raise their proposal to the Pedagogical Coordination Commission, which may be included in the joint offer of optional subjects to be approved by the cloister for authorization to the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal and inclusion in the Curricular Project. This proposal shall contain the development of paragraphs (a) and (b) set out in point 14 of this Order.

Additional provision second. -Teachers who deliver class in the first cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education at Institutes of Secondary Education will be incorporated into the Didactic Departments of such centres, as is set out in Annex IV, depending on the area (s) to be provided according to the allocation of areas set out in Annex V.

Additional provision third. -With a general character, students will be entitled to remain in school in the ordinary institutions, pursuing the teaching of compulsory secondary education until the calendar year in which they comply. the eighteen years. However, such an age limit will not apply to students who, when they are enrolled in the compulsory secondary education, do so at a higher age than the course they are in, as they are for these students. In the case of the Court of Law, the Court held that the Court held that the Court held that the Court held that the Court held that the Court of

First transient disposition. -1. Students who have been in school for the previous academic year in Basic General Education will access compulsory secondary education as follows:

(a) Acceding to the second course of the first cycle of compulsory secondary education those students who have completed the previous academic year the seventh course of Basic General Education.

(b) Students under the age of sixteen who, having completed an eighth of Basic General Education, have not obtained the degree of School Graduation shall be enrolled in the second course of the first cycle of compulsory secondary education.

c) Acceding to the third compulsory secondary education course students who have completed the previous academic year the eighth course of Basic General Education and are in possession of the degree of School Graduation or Certificate The School of the School of the European Commission of the European Community.

2. For pupils who, having been schooled in the Unified and Polivalent Baccalaureate or First Degree Vocational Training in the previous academic year, are enrolled in the second cycle of compulsory secondary education, they will be The provisions of Annex I to Royal Decree 986/1991 of 14 June (Official Gazette of the State of 25) and Annex III to the Order of 30 October 1992 (Official Gazette of the State of 11 November 1992).

3. The incorporation into the second cycle of compulsory secondary education of the students who, under the age of eighteen, have not been in school for the previous academic year, will be carried out as set out in Annex I of the Royal Decree 86/1991 of 14 June 1991 and Annex III to the Order of 30 October 1992.

Transitional provision second. -In the centres which in the process of early implementation of the second cycle of compulsory secondary education, they suppress teaching of vocational training of first degree, in case the number In the case of second-course repeat students, the number of pupils in the second year is higher than 15, or if there are close centres with the same speciality, the existence of a specific group for these pupils will be allowed for a further year.

Transient Disposition third. -1. As is stated in the first transitional provision of Royal Decree 82/1996 of 26 January 1996 (Official Gazette of the State of 20 February 1996), the Organic Regulation of the Schools of Child Education and of Schools is hereby approved. of Primary Education, and the second transitional provision of Royal Decree 83/1996 of 26 January ("Official State Gazette" of 21 February) approving the Organic Regulation of the Secondary Education Institutes, during the period in which the Primary Education Colleges provide, on a transitional basis, the first cycle of the Compulsory Secondary Education teaching, Teachers, pupils and parents of this educational cycle will be integrated into the Primary School of Education and will be part, as appropriate, of all their governing and coordinating bodies They will assume all rights and obligations which, as members of the educational community, apply to them.

2. For the purposes of teaching the teaching of the first cycle of compulsory secondary education, in each school of primary education in which these teachings are taught, a cycle team shall be set up to bring together all the teachers who In this first cycle, it will have, in relation to it, functions similar to those laid down in the Organic Regulation of the Schools of Child Education and the schools of Primary Education for those corresponding to those stages.

3. The cycle teams will formulate proposals for the elaboration of the Stage Curricular project corresponding to the first cycle. This curricular project shall be drawn up, approved and evaluated in accordance with the procedure laid down in Articles 49 and 53 of the Organic Regulation of the Schools of Child Education and the Colleges of Primary Education, and shall include the programmes. didactic of the different areas in whose elaboration and evaluation the Masters will have to participate, as mentioned in the next section.

4. Heads of the Department of Secondary Education Institutes who have primary education colleges in which the first cycle is to be held, will organize a calendar and a work plan before the beginning of the classes it allows. to incorporate the views and contributions of the Masters that deliver the corresponding area in the first cycle. This work plan will also include at least one follow-up meeting during the course and another evaluation of its development at the end of the course. Such meetings shall be held in time to enable the teachers of the Primary School of Education to attend.

5. The teachings of the first cycle of compulsory secondary education in the Primary Education Colleges will be taught by Masters, according to the allocation of areas in Annex V of this Order. The distribution of the areas of Technology and of Plastic and Visual Education will be assigned by the Director of the College according to the qualification of the faculty and the organizational needs of the center. In the case of Technology, this designation will preferably fall to Masters with certification of qualification in Mathematics and Nature Sciences.

Transitional provision fourth.-Students who initiate or join the compulsory secondary education must complete their studies in this way and obtain, where appropriate, the degree of graduate in education Secondary. However, during the process of early implementation of the teaching of compulsory secondary education, where exceptional circumstances arise which prevent a student from pursuing the studies initiated in the secondary education, the Directorates Provincial and Territorial Sub-Directorates of the Department may authorise the incorporation of the pupil into the teaching of the curricula which are extinguished in accordance with the provisions of the Order of 7 September 1994 ("Official Journal of the European Union"). State of the 17) laying down the general framework for access to the teachings regulated by the Law 14/1970, of 4 August, General of Education, as well as the conditions for the issue of the titles to which they conduct, of the students who, during the period of early implementation, are pursuing without completing the teachings derived from the Law Organic 1/1990, of 3 October, of General Management of the Educational System, and in the Resolution of 3 November 1994 ("Official State Gazette" of 26), of the Secretariat of State of Education, which develops it.

Transitional provision fifth. -In addition, in accordance with the provisions of the first transitional provision of Royal Decree 1487/1994 of 1 July 1994, the issue of the degree of School Graduation is authorized to those students who, from the Basic General Education, they would have passed the first cycle of compulsory secondary education and would not be able to obtain the degree of graduate in secondary education, either to continue their studies on another way or because, after their completion schooling at the stage, have not achieved the objectives of the stage. For these purposes, the first cycle shall be understood when the teaching team has decided to promote the second cycle as a result of the result of the assessment and not because it is impossible to stay for one more year in the first one, or well when the student has promoted due to such impossibility, the teaching team, at the end of the third course, would have decided to promote the fourth course of the stage as a result of the evaluation.

Transitional disposition sixth. -1. Throughout the course of 1995/1996 all the centres will adapt their offer of optional subjects so that at the beginning of the course 1996/97 the configuration which of the same will be done in the Project Curricular of Stage is adapted to the provisions in the present Order. Such adequacy shall be supervised by the relevant Education Inspection Service.

2. In order to ensure that the offer of optional subjects for each centre, in the course of 1996/1997, is in line with the provisions of this Order, the time limit for the application for the authorisation of optional subjects by the centres for development in that course end one month after the date of publication of this Order in the "Official State Gazette".

Transitional provision seventh. -In relation to the provisions of point septimo.2 of this Order, the centres which, in the course of the 1995/1996 course, have taught in advance the first cycle of secondary education Compulsory, in the course of 1996/1997 they will program the teaching of the areas of Plastic and Visual Education and Technology in the second course of the cycle in two weekly teaching periods for each one of them.

Repeal provision.-The Order of 8 July 1993 for the provision of instructions for the advance implementation of compulsory secondary education and the provision of equal or lower provisions is hereby repealed. (a) shall be contrary to the provisions of this Order.

Final disposition. -The Secretary of State of Education will dictate how many measures are necessary for the application of the provisions of this Order.

Final disposition second. -This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, 28 February 1996.

SAAVEDRA ACEVEDO

Excmo. Mr Secretary of State for Education.

ANNEX I

Time for Secondary Education Stage

Required

Areas and subjects/1. course/2. course/3. course/4. course

Spanish Language and Literature/4/3/4/4

Foreign Language/3/3/3/3

Math/3/3/3/3

Social Sciences, Geography and History/3/3/3/3

Ethics (1)/-/-/-/2

Physical Education/2/2/2/2

Nature Sciences/3/3/4/-

Physics and Chemistry **/-/-/-/3

Biology and Geology **/-/-/-/3

Plastic and Visual Education **/4/-/2/3

Technology **/-/4/3/3

Music **/2/2/2/3

Optives/2/2/2/4

Religion/Study Activities/1/2/1/2

Tutoring/1/1/1/1

Total/28/28/30/30

* For pupils who are studying a second optional subject on a voluntary basis, this weekly schedule will be increased by two reading periods.

** In the fourth year the student will choose two of the options indicated, as set out in point seventh 5 of this Order.

(1) According to the fifth additional provision of Royal Decree 1701/1991 of 29 November ("Official State Gazette" of 2 December) establishing the specialties of the Teachers ' Body Secondary, the subject "Ethics" will be taught by the professors of the specialty "Philosophy".

ANNEX II

Time for Secondary Education Stage

mandatory in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands

Areas and subjects/1. course/2. course/3. course/4. course

Spanish Language and Literature/3/3/3/3

Foreign Language/3/3/3/3

Catalan Language and Literature/3/3/3/3

Math/3/3/3/3

Social Sciences, Geography and History/3/3/3/3

Ethics (1)/-/-/-/2

Physical Education/2/2/2/2

Nature Sciences/3/3/4/-

Physics and Chemistry **/-/-/-/3

Biology and Geology **/-/-/-/3

Plastic and Visual Education **/4/-/2/3

Technology **/-/4/3/3

Music **/2/2/2/3

Optives/2/2/2/4

Religion/Study Activities/1.5/1.5/1/2

Tutoring/1/1/1/1

Total/30.5/30.5/32/32

* For pupils who are studying a second optional subject on a voluntary basis, this weekly schedule will be increased by two reading periods.

** In the fourth year, the student will choose two of the options mentioned, as set out in point septimo.5 of this Order.

(1) According to the fifth additional provision of Royal Decree 1701/1991 of 29 November ("Official State Gazette" of 2 December) establishing the specialties of the Teachers ' Body Secondary, the subject "Ethics" will be taught by the professors of the specialty "Philosophy".

ANNEX III

Relation of approved optional subjects

by the General Direction of Pedagogical Renewal

for your partition in the Education stage

Required Secondary

Resolutions establishing the Curriculum/Optional Materies

Resolution of 10 June 1992, of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, for which optional subjects are approved for their delivery in compulsory secondary education ("Official State Gazette" of 19). /Second Foreign Language.

Craft Workshop.

Astronomy Workshop.

The Communication Processes.

Image and Expression.

Theatre Workshop.

Singing of Coral.

Math Workshop.

Transition to Adult and Active Life.

Resolution of 25 May 1994, of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, extending the repertoire of optional subjects approved for delivery in compulsory secondary education ("Official Journal of the European Communities"). State of June 15). /Botany applied.

Conservation and recovery of cultural heritage.

Renewable energy and environment.

Resolution of 2 November 1994, of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, approving the curriculum of the subject of Classical Culture for its delivery in the second cycle of compulsory secondary education ("Official State Gazette" of 16). /Classic culture.

Resolution of 17 January 1995, of the Directorate-General for Pedagogical Renewal, extending the repertoire of optional subjects approved for delivery in compulsory secondary education ("Official Journal of the European Communities"). State " of 25). /Women and Men's Social Papers.

Resolution of 7 February 1996, of the Directorate General of Pedagogical Renewal, for which the repertoire of approved optional subjects for its delivery in compulsory secondary education is extended. /Informática en la Educación Secondary Obligatoria.

ANNEX IV

Incorporation of Teachers into the Didactic Departments in Secondary Education Centers

Area/Department

Nature Sciences. /Natural Sciences.

Social Sciences, Geography and History. /Geography and History.

Physical Education. /Physical and Sports Education.

French. /French.

English. /English.

Spanish Language and Literature. /Spanish Language and Literature.

Catalan Language and Literature *./(1).

Mathematics. /Mathematics.

Music. /Music.

* In the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.

(1) They will be incorporated in the Department that, if necessary, is constituted for the teaching of the area of Catalan Language and Literature in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.

ANNEX V

Teachers with certification

enabling in:/Attribution of areas of the first cycle

Compulsory Secondary Education:

Philology: Spanish and English Language. /Foreign Language (English).

Spanish Language and Literature.

Philology: Spanish and French. /Foreign Language (French).

Spanish Language and Literature.

Philology: Catalan Language. Balearic Islands. /Catalan language and literature (Balearic Islands).

Philology: Spanish Language. /Spanish Language and Literature.

Mathematics and Nature Sciences. /Mathematics.

Nature Sciences.

Social Sciences. /Social Sciences, Geography and History.

Physical Education. /Physical Education.

Music. /Music.

Therapeutic Pedagogy. /Therapeutic Pedagogy.

Hearing and Language. /Hearing and Language.