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SEK International Schools

SEK International Schools cater for over 5,500 boarding and day students between the ages of 0 and 18 from over 50 nationalities in its centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Almería, Pontevedra, Dublin (Ireland), Les Alpes (France) and Doha (Qatar).

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Extracurricular Activities

SEK International Schools extracurricular activities develop areas of academic, artistic, creative or sporting interests outside school hours.

Summer programmes

More than simple summer camps, they are adapted especially to the needs of children and adolescents. A combination of fun summer activities and on-going academic learning.

SEK boarding facilities

SEK International Halls of Residence at SEK El Castillo, SEK-Catalunya, SEK-Les Alpes and the university offer the students the opportunity of taking part in activities that extend the school day. Halls of residence ensure ideal conditions for high academic achievement programmes (IB Diploma) and high-performance sports programmes (SEK International Sports Academy).

Students with international vocation

Over 200 SEK students have been admitted to study at the most prestigious universities around the world over the last five years.

Camilo José Cela University

Innovation, interdisciplinarity and an international outlook are the three hallmarks of UCJC, a university that prepares the students of today for the real world.

FELIPE SEGOVIA FOUNDATION

The Felipe Segovia Foundation strives to promote the educational thinking and beliefs that inspired the work of the founder of SEK Education Group with the goal of improving of educational quality.

Principles, activities and initiatives

The Felipe Segovia Foundation develops its activity around the student and hinging on the following tenets: freedom and education, education research and innovation and dignified teaching and leadership.

Videos

The Felipe Segovia Symposium is a meeting place for all our community to share the most innovative teaching projects and initiatives.

SEK Awards

See the list of past SEK Education Group Awards for Education Research and Innovation and Best Education Practices. These awards have been given to the best teaching practices in classrooms and lecture theatres of our schools and university since 1996.

BOOKS AND HISTORIC
DOCUMENTS

Reference documents on the past and present of SEK Education Group, pioneers in education

Historia de la Institución Educativa SEK. Desde 1892

SEK Education Group has re-released, to mark its 125th anniversary, this book on its history, a tribute to a history of SEK excellence and innovation and an acknowledgement to the commitment shown by families, students and teachers.

Aula de Cultura SEK

This book, published on the 50th anniversary of Aula de Cultura SEK, is in memory of and pays homage to the over 300 extraordinary SEK teachers that contributed to broadening our horizons and enriched our educational community in all fields of knowledge.

La escuela sin paredes

This article, published in the Didascalia journal by SEK in 1973, was ahead of its times and reflected on the need to overcome the traditional concept of the classroom and seek new, open and flexible learning spaces.

Felipe Segovia Olmo. Pensamiento y obra educativa.

An indispensable book to understand the educational thinking and legacy of Felipe Segovia Olmo, one of the most important educational thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An educational entrepreneur, his work led to the creation of 20 teaching centres that today educate over 20,000 students. In Spain and abroad.

El Aula Inteligente

A definitive reference book for the SEK Education System, El Aula Inteligente is the high-point of the educational thinking that led to the redesign of teaching, meeting the demands of today and proving necessary for students' professional careers and social life.

Advisory Boards

These advisory bodies aim to reflect on the present and future of SEK Education Group, tackle new challenges and harness the opportunities offered by today's ever changing world.

SEK International Advisory Board

Made up of prestigious, world-renown intellectuals and professionals to bolster our international projection.

SEK Junior Advisory Board

Made up of SEK students of different ages, it bolsters the role of our students in the designing of our educational model.

Innovation

Innovation is the main hallmark of SEK Education Group that, since its foundation, has been a pioneer in different aspects of education.

Innovaciones

El 125 aniversario brinda una oportunidad única de contemplar los innumerables hitos que en el pasado han situado a la Institución SEK a la vanguardia educativa para proyectarse ahora al futuro y seguir liderando la innovación en España y el mundo.

Makers in SEK

Headed by Professor Stephen Heppell, the SEK Group is pioneering the introduction of maker spaces in Spain, spaces that are contributing to the transformation of our schools.

Future Work Skills 2020

To be able to understand the future and the skills needed to be successful, SEK Education Group uses the framework suggested by the report entitled Future Work Skills 2020 by the Institute for the Future.

Creating third millennium learning spaces

Creating third millennium learning spaces is an interesting study on how, in just a few years, educational institutions will have within their reach technology that will enable them to offer their students hitherto unheard of innovations in learning.

SEKLab

At SEK Lab, the EdTech start up accelerator, we connect with new ideas and initiatives from our classrooms that aspire to transform education, while at the same time encouraging our students to think about entrepreneurship and change culture and innovation.

Publications

SEK NEWS

SEK News 2017

An annual publication that showcases the main milestones of the year at SEK Education Group. News, articles and interviews covering 150 pages with full colour photographs, in which the stars are SEK students and professionals.

JUMP

Jump

Camilo José Cela University's three-monthly campus magazine. As well as being an interesting magazine it is a true reflection of campus activities and a nexus bringing together the full breadth and diversity of our educational community.

ORBIS TERTIUS JUNIOR

Orbis Tertius 2016

With the aim of bridging the gap between school and university, the Felipe Segovia Foundation publishes the only research journal for young people in Spain, Orbis Tertius Junior, to disseminate the best essays and articles written by our IB Diploma students.

JUMPING

Jumping

Jumping is the new communications channel for campus life at UCJC. Published every three months, it describes all that goes on at the university from the students' perspective. A space where readers will find the latest news, activities and events on student life.

Awards and distinctions

Partner bodies

Our activity has been widely acclaimed by numerous prestigious distinctions in all areas of our educational actions.

List of partner bodies

Numerous organisations, associations, foundations and bodies currently collaborate with SEK Education Group.