The second Training Day for heads and other teachers from the twelve schools taking part in the Alfredo Hirsch Project for Education in Farming and Animal Husbandry was held on March 14. Mrs Claudia Caraballo de Quentin, Don Alfredo Hirsch’s grand-daughter and sponsor of the project, attended the meeting on this occasion.

The experts giving the talks were Paula Scaliter, the Coordinator of Special Programs from the IIPE-UNESCO Training Unit, who spoke on the topic of “Schools: their past, present and future”, and Ernesto Gore, the Academic Director of the University of St Andrew, who presented “The School as an organization”. The Project Coordinator, Patricio Ferrario explained the IOS 9001 standard and its application in schools. 

The project, highly innovative in its aims and content, provides the transfer of know-how through a series of training days. Its purpose is to help agricultural and animal husbandry schools from both the private and public sector to develop an Educational Quality Management System (SGCE in Spanish) which will secure certification according to international standards of quality

This year’s calendar includes a program of monthly meetings to share advice and exchange with experts. There will also be three meetings with the Project Coordinator at each school over the year to ensure the appropriate follow-up and audit of the work carried out.

The project is being financed by Claudia Caraballo de Quentin and Octavio Caraballo, Don Alfredo Hirsch’s grandchildren.

Those taking part in this project include:

• Escuela de Educación Técnica N° 486, Carcarañá, Santa Fe. (Head, Liliana Colombo and the School Tutor, Graciela Gaggioli).
  
  
• Escuela de Educación Técnica N° 299 “Carlos Silvestre Begnis”, Sa Pereira, Santa Fe. (Vice-director, Carlos Wangler and the Veterinary Doctor and Agrarian Sciences Teacher, Carlos Pochettino).
  
  
• Instituto Línea Cuchilla, Ruiz Montoya, Misiones. (Director, Martín Günthardt and Rector, Inés Vollmann).
  
  
• EFA “Jesús de Galilea” C-0209, Dos de Mayo, Misiones. (Rector, Hugo Da Silva, EGB3 coordinator, Beatriz Schulz and the teacher Héctor Silveira).
  
  
• IPEM N° 221 “San Carlos”, Jovita, Córdoba. (Director, Héctor Politano and the Agro-sciences engineer and professor, Rubén Acotto).
  
  
• Escuela Agrotécnica Eulogio Cruz Cabral, Mercedes, Corrientes. (Rector, Laura Manauta de Bulman y and the teaching coordinator, Olga Alicia Holzmann de Casanova).
  
  
• Escuela de Agricultura y Sacarotecnia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, Tucumán. (Director, Edgardo Grasso and the Animal Husbandry Coordinator, Germán Cornejo).
  
  
• Escuela Agropecuaria Coronel Suárez, Coronel Suárez, Buenos Aires. (Director, Roberto Palacio and the Animal Husbandry teacher, Silvia Kolonskiy).
  
  
• Escuela María Cruz y Manuel L. Inchausti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Valdés, Buenos Aires. (Director, Ricardo Cabassi and the Vice-director, Héctor Pérez).
  
  
• Escuela Jesús de la Buena Esperanza, Barreal, San Juan. (Director, Fernando Bugallo and the Vice-director, Beatriz Oruste).
  
  
• Escuela Agrotécnica “Libertador General San Martín”, Casilda, Santa Fe. (Director, Miguel Ángel Cané and the Coordinator, Graciela Mandolina).
  


• Instituto Agropecuario de Monte “Elvira Lainez de Soldati”, Monte, Buenos Aires. (Director, María Martha Murphy and the Vice-director, María del Carmen Bottaro).