Esla Centros de Formación

Esla Centros de Formación (commonly Esla Formación or Grupo Esla) is a Spanish private education group whose activity is oriented towards employability and the preparation of candidates for public-sector examinations. According to its own corporate history, the group began in Zamora in 2002 as a family business dedicated to vocational training for employment, and from that first academy in the city of Zamora it progressively opened centres in Castilla y León, Madrid and the Valencian Community. It describes itself as present in three autonomous communities with twelve centres, and it has extended its reach nationally through distance and online learning. The group's catalogue is organised around several lines of work. It delivers vocational training for employment aimed at unemployed people and workers, including subsidised courses in areas such as administration, health and new technologies. It prepares candidates for competitive examinations (oposiciones) for different branches of the Administration — justice, education, health, security forces and social work — with updated materials and specialist teachers. It also offers official qualifications through intermediate and advanced vocational training cycles (Formación Profesional), with a practical orientation and a focus on access to employment. Alongside these, it provides private training in languages, computing, accounting and professional skills, as well as training for companies in classroom, blended, distance and online formats, and personalised courses for individuals. Esla Formación is accredited to deliver vocational training for employment by the Spanish public employment service (Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal), which allows it to offer training linked to the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications, professional certificates, certification for competence-accreditation processes, and training linked to training-and-learning contracts. It also collaborates in sector-specific training, including the national construction agreement, occupational risk prevention and machinery handling in industry, food handling in the health sector, and the training, updating and professional retraining of private security personnel. The group is accredited as an examination centre for the Universidad Católica de Ávila, the University of Wales and the Instituto Cervantes (DELE and CCSE examinations), and it is authorised as a placement agency by the public employment service. Its teaching model combines classroom, online and distance formats. The group states that the shift towards digitalisation was encouraged by public administrations from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has since developed accredited online vocational training to reach people who cannot attend in person. It presents information technologies as a tool that allows training to be combined with work or other obligations, supports change in rural areas, promotes the advancement of women and aids family reconciliation, while a mixed classroom/digital methodology is intended to avoid the negative consequences of digitalisation such as isolation and lack of socialisation. The group also maintains a public-facing news section on its website covering examination calls and results, and it recruits commercial and administrative staff for its centres, with vacancies advertised in Zamora, Toro and Valladolid.

Esla Centros de Formación is a Spanish educational group whose work in employment-oriented training and the preparation of candidates for public examinations has been carried out in classroom, online and distance formats since 2002. The group began in Zamora in 2002 as a family business dedicated to vocational training for employment. From that first academy in the city of Zamora, different centres were opened in Castilla y León, Madrid and the Valencian Community. The expansion is dated in the group's own account. In 2008 the Toro centre was inaugurated, and in 2010 the School of Hospitality in Zamora. In 2012 the group opened another delegation in Benavente; in 2014 in Salamanca and Madrid; in 2019 in Ávila and León; in 2020 in Valladolid; and in 2021 in Gandía (Valencia). With these openings the group acquired a national dimension by offering distance and online training. It describes itself as present in three autonomous communities with twelve centres. Alongside its geographical growth, the group built up a portfolio of accreditations and partnerships. It is accredited to deliver vocational training for employment by the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal, which allows it to provide training linked to the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications, training linked to obtaining professional certificates, certifiable training for competence-accreditation processes, and training linked to training-and-learning contracts. For the practical placements associated with this training it has signed agreements with public administrations and private companies. It also collaborates in sector-specific training: within the national General Construction Agreement (professional card or TPC for construction, metal, wood and furniture); in the industrial sector for occupational risk prevention training in machinery handling; in health for food-handler training in all specialities; and in private security for the training, updating and professional retraining of private security personnel such as security guards, bodyguards and private detectives. The group is also accredited as an examination centre for the Universidad Católica de Ávila, the University of Wales and the Instituto Cervantes, covering the DELE diplomas and the CCSE test on constitutional and sociocultural knowledge of Spain. As a placement agency it is authorised by the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (No. 9900000152), acting as an intermediary between workers and companies. In its examination-preparation work, the group prepares candidates for state, regional and local administration examinations in the sectors of Education; Security Forces; Justice; Health and Social Work. Each year it holds an event recognising candidates who have obtained their posts, held at the Teatro Ramos Carrión in the city of Zamora. Because its training is oriented towards employment, it includes practical exercises and simulations of specific cases, such as the workplace-accident drill that closed a course on health transport, in which two workers fell from height during vertical work in an industrial building and civil protection, ambulances and industrial facilities took part. The group's teaching is organised into five sectors: vocational training for employment for unemployed people and workers, with classroom, free courses backed by the public administration; preparation of public examinations in classroom mode or through a virtual classroom; private security training; training for and in companies through classroom, blended, distance and online modes, allowing employers to train employees through bonuses; and personalised training for individuals, children and adults. The catalogue of courses, examinations and training is updated annually and is always oriented towards employability. The shift towards digitalisation was encouraged by public administrations from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the group has since developed accredited online vocational training to make training accessible to those unable to attend in person. It presents information technologies as a tool that allows training to be combined with work or other obligations, supports change in the rural world, promotes women and aids family reconciliation, while its mixed classroom/digital methodology aims to avoid the negative consequences of digitalisation such as lack of socialisation, isolation and individualism.

• 2021

  Delegation opened in Gandía (Valencia), giving the group a national dimension through distance and online training.

• 2020

  Delegation opened in Valladolid.

• 2019

  Delegations opened in Ávila and León.

• 2014

  Delegations opened in Salamanca and Madrid.

• 2012

  Delegation opened in Benavente.

• 2010

  School of Hospitality opened in Zamora.

• 2008

  Toro centre inaugurated.

• 2002

  Group founded in Zamora as a family business dedicated to vocational training for employment.

A family-run Spanish education group focused on employability, combining subsidised public-funded vocational training, civil-service exam preparation and official vocational qualifications in classroom, online and distance formats.

• Subsidised vocational training for employment

  Classroom, free courses for unemployed people and workers, backed by the public administration (Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal), in areas such as administration, health and new technologies.

• Oposiciones preparation

  Preparation for state, regional and local administration examinations in Education, Security Forces, Justice, Health and Social Work, in classroom mode or through a virtual classroom.

• Formación Profesional cycles

  Official intermediate and advanced vocational training cycles with a practical orientation and access to employment, including Multiplatform Application Development, Early Childhood Education, Health Emergencies, International Trade, Marketing and Advertising, and Nature Guide and Free Time.

• Private training

  Private courses in languages, computing, accounting and professional skills.

• Corporate training

  Training for and in companies in classroom, blended, distance and online modes, allowing employers to train employees through bonuses.

• Private security training

  Preparation for private security guards, specialisation and retraining courses, and training, updating and professional retraining of security guards, bodyguards and private detectives.

• Occupational risk prevention and machinery handling

  Industrial-sector training in occupational risk prevention for machinery handling.

• Food handling training

  Health-sector training for food handlers in all specialities.

• Placement agency services

  Authorised by the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (No. 9900000152), acting as an intermediary between workers and companies.

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