Elena Fernández Treviño will take the reins of the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports in Melilla, since Juan Ángel Berbel has played in recent years.
This was announced today by the Delegate of the Government in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, who has shown that “she is going to do a great job also at the head of the Provincial Directorate, which is going to collect that witness with all the enthusiasm and enthusiasm”.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in the city has thanked the work of Juan Ángel Berbel, who since 2018 has held this responsibility. “I would like to thank you for the work you have done over these six and a half years, attending to various issues with professionalism and loyalty,” he said.
For her part, the new Provincial Director of Education has thanked the Government Delegate and the MEFPyD for their trust, and has recognized the work of her predecessor in office. She recalled that she already worked with the Delegate during her period as Head of the Coordination Unit Against Gender Violence (July 2018-July 2019) and acknowledged that they made “a very good team and I think that a new challenge is opening right now, all that way that starts today”.
Fernández Treviño has expressed that he faces this new journey “with the illusion of knowing that the work of education in the city is one of the most important bastions and that we count on what has been built, because there is a lot that has already been done and there is a lot that is going to continue to be done”.
He has also valued the great work done by the team of the Provincial Directorate. “A very good job is being done for the city and the investment of the Government of Spain in Melilla has been and continues to be very great,” he defended. “As a teacher I believe that Education in Melilla is undoubtedly one of the most important pillars of our city and one of the issues that most concerns us as a Socialist Party and that most concerns the Government of Spain,” he said. “The commitment to Education is huge and we will continue to work on deepening all this,” he said.
Socialist policy
Fernández Treviño has advanced that they will continue to promote projects such as Vocational Training programs, education in diversity and the commitment to education in equality or coeducation. In addition, he stressed the importance of working from “the closeness and listening that Melillenses, students, teachers and families deserve”.
“We work with a clear policy, from the socialist policy, which carries in its heart education as one of the objectives and the great important legs in which to walk and work,” he stressed. “Education is a school of opportunity, it is a place where they come to compensate for those uneven backpacks with which boys and girls arrive at school and there we will also be making a clear bet for all of this,” he said.
Inter-agency collaboration
In this sense, he said that they are going to bet on Education in the city, “with a clear policy that indicates what the objectives are, the map of the route and the project that we also want to carry out” and “with proximity to Madrid”.
“The Ministry has put itself at our disposal to work together, to create a firm and constant communication bridge and joint projects,” he said. Likewise, he referred to the collaboration with the Autonomous City, “with all the agreements that we have and that are working”.
At the same time, he has defended a close work with the educational community and with the entire group of teaching staff, families and also non-teaching staff. “That closeness and that listening will be fundamental in our new stage, in which new challenges are presented and that we are going to face with teamwork, together,” he stressed.
Education, fundamental axis
The head of the Government Delegation in Melilla has highlighted that Education is one of the fundamental axes of the Government of Spain and has referred to the actions that have been carried out in the city since 2018, such as the lowering of the ratio of students per classroom. “To do this, it was necessary to work on several fundamental lines such as providing schools with greater human resources and providing the city with greater infrastructures,” he explained.
“Throughout this period, several educational centers have been inaugurated and 424 places have been offered for teachers, without counting the new Public Employment Offer scheduled for this year with almost 160 places,” he said. In this way, it has put in value, it has managed to lower the ratio from 30 students in Infant to 21 and in Primary to 24
“We have substantially increased the budget allocations for scholarships so that the most vulnerable families can have the necessary coverage and that students can study on equal opportunities,” he said. “We have increased the number of dining places and we have made available to the educational centers a supply of necessary and essential computer equipment for the students to continue moving forward,” he added.
Moh also referred to Vocational Training, “there are 29 training cycles that we have implemented throughout this time, which has meant an increase of 1,200 more students”. “With all these issues we have experienced a substantial drop in school failure and dropout,” he said.
Curriculum vitae
Fernández Treviño has a degree in Law from the University of Granada and has been a career civil servant in Group A1 of the Secondary School Teachers Corps since 2006. She teaches philosophy at the IES Miguel Fernández de Melilla, while she is coordinator of the Equality Plan at the aforementioned center (2013-2018, 2023-2025).
He was head of the Coordination Unit Against Gender Violence of the Government Delegation in Melilla from July 2018 to July 2019. She was Minister of Education, Culture, Festivities and Equality from July 2019 to July 2023.