The Bernat el Ferrer Institute is currently a center offering compulsory secondary education (ESO); high school (Bachillerato) in the humanities and social sciences, as well as scientific and technological tracks; intermediate and advanced vocational training programs in the administrative, electrical-electronic, and computer science fields; and vocational master’s programs in the professional family of computer science and communications. The institute also offers other programs, including those under the “Training and Insertion Program” and the Catalonia Employment Service.
The Bernat el Ferrer Institute began its academic activities in the 1978-79 school year and was originally established as a Vocational Training Institute. In Molins de Rei, it complemented the public education already provided by the BUP system. In the 1983-84 school year, a rotation of workshops was introduced to eliminate early specialization at age 14 and provide a more versatile education. From that year onward, some courses began to experimentally implement the teaching model then called the Educational Reform, which later evolved, with modifications, into the model established by the LOGSE.
All these experiments and initiatives have created a school culture that sees teaching as inseparable from organizational strategies, curriculum adaptations, enhanced tutoring, and other activities, which allow the majority of students to obtain the Compulsory Secondary Education Certificate while also preparing them for success in higher education: high school (Bachillerato), vocational training, and university studies.