The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MEyFP) has implemented 5 new professional titles and has expanded the offer of Vocational Training (FP) in Melilla by 300 places for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, and the Provincial Director of the MEyFP have reported on this issue and have highlighted the “unequivocal” commitment to Professional Training that the Government of Spain has carried in our city.
“We talk about the largest offer of professional titles and places in the entire history of Melilla”, explained the highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city, which has indicated that, since the 2019-2020 academic year, 25 professional titles have been implemented in Melilla and has meant an increase of 1,000 places for these teachings.
“The introduction of new cycles undoubtedly has an impact on reducing early school dropout rates and improving the qualifications of the Melillense population, especially young people, thus enabling them to improve their qualifications, and reintegrating into the labour market a large part of the people who have left the labour market in recent months,” said Moh.
In fact, the Delegate has defended that the implementation of new professional titles denotes a commitment to training, but also to the employment and economy of Melilla and to the future of the city.
“Today, VET are the closest professional studies to the reality of the labor market and respond to the need for qualified personnel specialized in the different professional sectors to respond to the current demand for employment,” he said.
Precisely, for this reason, he has apostilled, Vocational Training is so important in our city because “it allows to recognize professional skills to many melillenses who, at the time, due to various circumstances, could not carry out or complete their studies and, above all, because through quality training and adjusted to the real needs of the city, because we are effective professionals of high quality”.
In this regard, he recalled that the Government has carried out the new Organic Law on the Organization and Integration of Vocational Training, which has completed the process of modernization of these teachings, undertaken in 2018 by the Government with the launch of the first Strategic Plan for Vocational Training and reinforced in 2020 with the Plan for the Modernization of Vocational Training.
Face-to-face and virtual
The Provincial Director of the MEyFP, for his part, has specified that two new professional titles have been authorized in the face-to-face modality, each with an offer of 30 places: the training cycle of Medium Degree in Bakery, Confectionery and Confectionery, of the professional family of Food Industries in the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia.
“This technical degree develops its activity in artisanal or semi-industrial workers who produce bakery, pastry and confectionery products; as well as in the hospitality sector, catering subsector and as a processor”, he explained, and pointed out that also in the food trade sector “in those establishments that produce and sell bakery, pastry and pastry products with a wide presence in the city”.
In the IES Juan Antonio Fernández has been authorized the training cycle of Superior Degree of Guide, Information and Tourist Assistance, of the professional family of Hospitality and Tourism. “This cycle of the Hospitality and Tourism family will be offered together with that of Travel Agencies and Event Management of the same family, in alternation to update the demand needs of these profiles in the productive sector and facilitate the obtaining of a 2nd Higher Degree training cycle that will expand the expectations of access to the labor market,” he has advanced.
On the other hand, in the virtual modality, three new cycles are going to be implemented, each of them with an offer of 80 places, where each student can choose indistinctly modules of 1st or 2nd, according to their expectations, needs and preferences, with a more flexible curricular model, adapted to the work and family conciliation of the person who obtains a place, with materials tailored to follow with guarantees such teachings, it will be in the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia, where the training cycle of Medium Degree of Health Emergencies, of the professional family of Health, will be taught.
With this, he pointed out, it is intended to reach a greater number of students who do not obtain a place in face-to-face mode or serve to meet the high demand of this profile, especially for the troops of the city, one of the groups that has requested it repeatedly so that the possibility on the part of this educational Administration is assessed.
In the IES Juan Antonio Fernández, the online modality will be offered in the training cycle of the Higher Degree of Social Integration and the Promotion of Gender Equality. “Both are from the professional family of Sociocultural Services and the Community and are already implanted in the center in the face-to-face mode so offering the online mode will allow a part of the citizenship with family and/or work load more temporal and spatial flexibility that adapts to their needs,” he explained.
1,000 places and 40 teachers
As Berbel explained, since the 2019-2020 academic year, the MEyFP “has been firmly and firmly committed to the expansion of FP education in the city”.
A bet that has meant the implementation of 25 titles that have meant 1,000 places and 40 teaching professionals. In addition, it has entailed an investment of over 50% in financing compared to the previous Executive, and has served “to meet the needs of the productive and business fabric that the city demands of us, also adjusting to the challenge that the labor market poses to us as a society and country to meet its most urgent demands in terms of recruitment and optimal training”.
In this way the students of Melilla who request to study vocational training and artistic teaching will be able to choose to start teaching in 1 of the cycles between 13 titles of 11 professional families, 3 of them duplicates of Basic Degree Training Cycles; 23 titles of 15 professional families, 3 of them duplicates, of Medium Degree Training Cycles; 29 titles of 15 professional families 1 duplicate and 2 unfolded, of Higher Degree Training Cycles; and 2 titles corresponding to 2 professional families, of Specialization Courses.
For the implementation of the provision of the Law on the Management and Integration of VET, an economic increase has been bet for the implementation of measures such as innovation, digitalization, applied research and entrepreneurship, apart from the usual operating expenses per VET that has amounted to more than 1.4 million euros, for the nine centers that teach these teachings, to which is added an extraordinary release at the end of the year of more than 475,000 euros.
With this amount, as explained by Berbel, the entrepreneurship classrooms have been launched, with an investment of 65,000 euros in 7 centers in the city; the ATECA classrooms, with an investment of 254,650 euros in 4 centers; the bilingual cycles, with an investment of 96,000 euros in 5 centers; and Accredita, with 60,000 euros in 7 centers in the city.
“The goal that we set as a country in the accreditation of labor skills is to reach 3 million by 2025, an ambitious milestone, as well as necessary to remain competitive as a developed economy within the countries of the OECD,” he said.
To this end, added Berbel, the MEyFP has updated more than 60% of the professional qualifications, created 63 new ones and designed 10 new degrees and 15 specialization courses aimed at graduates of Middle and Higher Degree of FP, linked to emerging sectors of high employability, with a duration of six months what is known as the experts and master’s degrees of FP.
The plan also foresees the internationalization of VET by transforming 10% of training cycles into bilinguals. “With regard to what is allocated as a city, we doubled what was planned in the first year of implementation. English is the international language to be used in commerce, a door that opens up possibilities in the professional field, both inside and outside the local and national level,” he said.
The text of the Law establishes a unique, modular and flexible offer of Professional Training ordered in training itineraries that allow the progression through 5 ascending degrees (A, B, C, D and E). The training experience of each person will be available in the new State Professional Training Register, which will allow any citizen to access it and obtain an updated Formative-Professional Life Report.
The new structure will facilitate access to a whole range of formations of different duration and volume of learning that includes from smaller units or microformations (degree A) to achieve degrees and specialization courses (degrees D and E). In this way, each person will be able to design and configure their own itineraries adapted to their professional expectations and work needs.
The entire offer, regardless of its size and duration, will be cumulative, certifiable, and accreditable, which will allow students, employed and unemployed to advance their training trajectory that will lead to accreditations, professional certificates, degrees and professional master’s degrees.
The implementation schedule will begin in the 2023/24 academic year for grades A, B and C and will culminate in the 2024/25 academic year for grades D and E.
Admissions process
In his statement to the media, Berbel has advanced the draft timetable for the admission process for the 2023-2024 academic year, according to which the submission of applications will be from June 7 to 28; the publication of provisional vacancies and provisional list of admitted and excluded applicants and waiting list will be on July 10 and the submission of claims will be on July 11.
In addition, based on that draft timetable, the issuance of final vacancies and the final list of admitted and excluded applicants and the waiting list will be by 19 July; regular registration will take place between 20 and 27 July. And, in September, until the 4th, it will be the publication by adjudication by management of the waiting list.
In addition, on September 8, it is set as the end of enrollment improves waiting list. After this process, in strict order of arrival, vacancies will be served in those cycles where there are still vacancies available.
“It is important to remember that being on the list of admitted does not entail a place of registration, but that it has to be formalized in the assigned center and if it does not take place in the authorized period, it will fall in its right, passing its place to the successive candidates,” he said.