Secondary education Midi-Pyrénées

The professional Lycée Voltaire has a sommelier section with a complementary mention (level V diploma), which is prepared in one year in addition to another diploma in the hotel-catering sector (CAP, BEP…). Diploma also accessible after three years of experience in the profession. Professional tasting uses personal skills: smell wine, absorb a sip, hold it in mouth before recracher, guess the aromas, recognize the grape varieties, discern the vintage, learn the specific vocabulary used to describe his dress, describe the wine and the final knowledge to associate with the best wines and dishes. The learning also covers the history of vineyards, the supply, storage, maintenance of wines and spirits, from the material from the cellar to the distribution and to the table service at the right temperature. Sommelier school is interested in wines and any commercialized beverage from mineral water to strong alcohol.

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With its BTS Accounting-Management, it is naturally to Henri IV High School that fans of figures, balance sheets and results accounts run. This Baccalaureate + 2 diploma gives access to a job of assistant in a cabinet, an accounting service or opens the doors of a second cycle for those who wish to reach the accounting expertise.

The largest high school in the region with a 3-axis project: European classes, plastic arts, reception of athletes. A hope pole rugby, sports sports section, 3 arranged classes - volleyball ball - rugby - ASBH - and athletics + 1 class sport option. Once you're in the pocket, if you're not tempted by long and theoretical studies, why not take concrete training to enter the world of work more quickly? The General and Technological Lycée Jean Moulin offers a whole range of BTS - Superior Technician patents - in various fields ranging from tertiary sector - commercial action, management assistant - to industrial sector - design of industrial, industrial, electronic - by passing through informatics - management informatics.

The purely educational nature of these places, service and reception being provided solely by students, explains the differences in rates with the profession. High school is composed of different training centres: economic (accounting, sales), hotels (kitchen, restaurant, reception, reception) and food (bio services). Many of the professionals who will welcome you in the referenced institutions are from these initial trainings. You will meet, also, according to the season, young trainees. These periods in business, thanks to the advice and attention of professionals, are an integral part of training.

Opened in 2008 in Nîmes, the regional school for the 2nd chance put on a new approach to teaching. One foot in active life, the other at school, student trainees - one-hundred registered per class - were previously remote from the school system. They will again have the opportunity to follow a cycle of lessons and practical work, out of traditional schemes, while doing, alternately, the learning of active life. Over one year, individual education aims to re-learn to read, write, count, and give the concepts of computers, a foreign language, reading the press. This basic instruction includes immersion in the workplace, but also a reminder of certain codes of citizenship, the taste of culture, reading. A very interesting pilot experience funded mainly by the regional council.

The Lycée Airbus de Toulouse is a benchmark for training in aeronautical professions. A public institution offering free tuition, it successfully prepares students for key diplomas in the sector, such as BTS in Aeronautics, Machining and Boilermaking, as well as BTS in partnership with other schools. Its major advantage? A 95% professional integration rate, enabling students to join Airbus or our partner companies as soon as they graduate. With a rigorous admissions procedure starting in 3rd year, the school welcomes over 170 new students every year.