“At this point in the course there are still two schools that do not have textbooks. I ask the Ministry of Education, which is in charge of this issue, to do it in time and form, which I believe is my obligation, because we all have to worry about Melilla and the educational centers of Melilla, no matter where the competences come from.”
The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, in an interview given today to Onda Cero, has come to terms with the statements made by the Councilor for Education of the City, Miguel Ángel Fernández Bonnemaison, in which she pointed out that she focused exclusively on the competences that are her own.
The head of the MEFPyD in our city, who has stressed that what she wants is the improvement of Education in Melilla regardless of who the competences are, has stressed the importance of relations with the Autonomous City being fluid. In fact, he has asked to put ideological differences aside and work “all in one to improve the Education of the city.”
“I have already spoken with the Director General of Educational Policy and also with the Counselor himself and I have told them that we have to hold meetings so that these agreements can be implemented. And, in addition, they start in time and form because it is true that this year they have arrived with a lot of delay,” he said.
Thus, he has reported that the educational compensation agreement has started late. Also the PROA+ agreement, which, “although contracts were already made before Christmas, most have now been made”, has indicated in reference to the twenty professionals of the teaching that have begun in this month of January.
As for the agreement with nurses, which the local executive has assured that it has already been signed by the Minister, Fernández Treviño has clarified that they have done so “without having yet gone through State Intervention”. “These agreements have administrative procedures, you cannot announce in the press that you are going to implement an agreement that has not yet gone through the appropriate procedures,” he said.
“Once they go through all the procedures, the agreement will be approved, which we have also said we support a nurse in the schools, but I do not know if it will give time for this school year,” he warned.
No equality agents
Continuing with the agreements between the MEFPyD and the Autonomous City, he referred to the coeducation agreement that “has to start on time and the co-educators have to be at the beginning of the course”. “We are almost at the end of January and we have no news that the co-education agents working for equality and the prevention of violence will arrive, for the time being,” he lamented.
“The idea of this Provincial Directorate and the Ministry is that these schools for equality are growing,” he said, and stressed the importance of this maximum work “in a society with the figures we have of violence.”
In the radio interview, he also spoke about the Morning Classrooms “that we, in our period of local government, put free in all schools in the city and that were offering a service from the beginning of the course and that have to start at the beginning of the course”, he stressed.
“Collaborations with the Autonomous City have to be fluid, the mechanism of the administration has to be operative and agile,” insisted the Provincial Director.