Iberia launches new Vocational Training degree on Aircraft Maintenance together with the Madrid regional government

Iberia and the Education, Youth and Sport Bureau of the Madrid Regional Government have reached an agreement to develop a Vocational Training degree that will be held, starting in October, at two Secondary Schools in Madrid. A total of 50 students, 25 per school, may enroll each year in the Advanced Vocational Training degree in Aeromechanical Maintenance. The duration of the Iberia Campus Aircraft Maintenance will be two school years. In the first year, classes will be held in the schools, and in the second year the training will be chiefly held at Iberia’s maintenance facilities in La Muñoza, near the Madrid airport, with 40% of the training to be given in the classroom and the remaining 60% in workshops. Students taking part in this Vocational Training degree, who earn the qualification of Advanced Technician, may complete their practical training in Iberia’s aircraft maintenance workshops in a third year, during which they may sit for European Air Safety Agency Category B examinations. Successful examinees will be qualified for employment as aircraft maintenance technicians in all European Union member states and throughout the European Economic Space. In the second and third years, the students will be awarded a grant.