The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today highlighted the historic investments of 316 million euros in three years that the Government of Spain transferred to the Xunta de Galicia to promote the modernization of Vocational Training. Pedro Blanco reviewed the figures provided by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training to the Xunta between 2021 and 2023 to transform training for employment, one of the strategic axes of the Government, through its own funds and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
He did so during a visit to the IES Rosalía Mera, where various basic, middle and higher degree cycles of Vocational Training are taught and in which he also valued the new Vocational Training Law. On this visit, in which he was able to know the educational offer of the center and talk with the students, he was accompanied by the president of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, Valentín González, as the head administration of the Center, and by the subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas.
The delegate visited this center on the occasion of the recent agreement of the Council of Ministers that completes, with 10 million euros, the historical series of investments of the Government in training for employment in Galicia.
He explained that, of the EUR 316 million transferred to the Xunta in the last three years, EUR 229 million is used to finance vocational training (qualification and retraining) actions for employed and unemployed people throughout the Community, and EUR 86 million is used for the education system. With this amount, the Government finances the creation of 23,217 new Vocational Training places in Galicia, of which more than 7,000 are bilingual.
In addition, these items will make possible the conversion into bilinguals of 236 training cycles of medium and higher grade and the creation of 213 entrepreneurship classrooms, while at the same time providing a boost to the certification of professionalism. In this regard, the delegate indicated that “85,000 Galicians and Galicians will be able to access a certificate of professionalism that gives academic value to the training that they acquired from their years of work experience.”
“We have a transformative VET law, which elevates vocational training, which represents an opportunity for the future for young people, to achieve quality jobs, and which will have its impact in Galicia thanks to a historical transfer,” said Pedro Blanco, who asked the Xunta that, “beyond incomprehensible party positions that prevented this law from being approved unanimously, it is up to the task and able to make good use of these funds.”
In this line, he recalled that in the last full year of the PP legislature, in 2017, the Ministry of Education invested only 10 million euros in public education in Galicia (excluding study bags and expenses related to these bags).