A total of 75 Child Education Technicians will be incorporated to work in schools and the special education center in the 2024-2025 academic year, thanks to the agreement between the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) and the Autonomous City.
As explained by the Provincial Director of Education, Juan Ángel Berbel, the object of this agreement is to concretize the technical support to the centers supported with public funds that provide the second cycle of Infant Education in the city.”
It will be carried out by hiring a minimum of 75 Senior Technicians in Early Childhood Education, who will perform the functions that are their own from their hiring until the end of the 2024-2025 course with 20 hours a week of work.
The City will finance the cost of this educational reinforcement for an initial amount of 1,668,500 euros, while the Provincial Directorate of the MEFPyD in Melilla will establish the guidelines of the actions of these Child Education Technicians and the specific tasks of support to the teachers in charge of teaching in the classrooms. Likewise, it will be the entity that directs Berbel that will distribute the aforementioned staff among the different schools, according to the needs of the same.
“Early childhood education is an educational stage that has a special importance for the equity of the educational system, since this stage pursues its own objectives, focused on the personal and social development of boys and girls, contributing to their integral development,” he said.
Thus, in the city of Melilla, as happens in other Spanish cities, “the need to reconcile work and family life, together with the growing awareness on the part of parents of the great importance of early schooling for their children, results in a notable increase in the demand for children’s school places,” he said.
In Berbel’s words, the increase in demand, as well as the response contemplated in the regulations in force, on the attention to the individual differences related to that educational stage, “highlight the existence of greater difficulties in the exercise of teaching work if there is no early schooling”.
“It is good news for the city of Melilla since it allows the hiring of 75 Technicians and Superior Techniques in Early Childhood Education, which have previously been prepared in the Higher Degree Training Cycle both the one we have in the Integrated Center of FP Reina Victoria Eugenia and that of IES Juan Antonio Fernández,” he concluded.