The Professional Training team of the Ministry of Education, Professional Training and Sports (MEPFyD), has traveled to the city of Melilla to get to know first-hand the work of the centers that teach FP. With a very intense agenda, the representatives of the Ministry have held various meetings with the management team and the teaching staff of FP, headed by the General Secretary of Vocational Training, Esther Monterrubio.
In this regard, Monterrubio has confirmed in an attention to the media that the Ministry will continue to bet on the consolidation of the FP system in the Autonomous City, whose management depends directly on the central government. “In terms of Vocational Training, Melilla is one of our priorities. We will strengthen the new system in order to guarantee opportunities, both for young people and workers, and for companies in the territory,” he stressed.
“There has been significant growth in Vocational Training, which has been accompanied by economic investment and very large funding,” he said, while assuring that “we have to continue working on the lines we have set ourselves.”
Monterrubio has shown special interest in promoting the Basic Degree cycles in the centers of Melilla as a “key tool” to stop early school dropout, so on Tuesday he held a working meeting with the teachers of this educational stage.
During the visit to the Reina Victoria Eugenia Integrated Vocational Training Centre in Melilla, the head of the Centre is committed to ensuring the implementation of dual training, as well as promoting more training for teachers and new resources in the classrooms. “We will design specific courses for teachers, improve the offer, work to make possible the new figures contemplated by the system and promote the dual to improve the quality of training and facilitate the talent needed by the labor market of the Autonomous City,” he added.
FP growth
The Delegate of the Government in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has emphasized the growth of Professional Training in our city. Thus, he pointed out that 58 VET cycles are currently taught in Melilla, having increased the offer in 26 degrees since 2019, which has resulted in an increase of 35% in the last six courses. “Many of these new cycles are linked to emerging sectors and closely related to the training needs of the professional profiles that the labor market is demanding,” he said.
In addition, since the Government of Spain launched the process of modernization and transformation of Vocational Training, the Ministry has invested more than 18.5 million euros in Melilla in order to consolidate the new VET system. All this, through the creation of 1,800 new places, six applied technology classrooms (ATECA) and eight entrepreneurship classrooms in the centers, or with the promotion of the accreditation of professional skills, among other actions.
“The VET data has been improving over the last six years, all of which has a positive impact and results in our city, both as a society, due to the training that is being given to our students, as well as in these rates and percentages of school failure and dropout,” he said.
The top representative of the Government of Spain in Melilla has stressed that the objective is to continue promoting education and Professional Training in the city, “which is also a demand of the business sector”. “Since we arrived at the Government Delegation, we have been transferred to the need to implement training cycles that respond to the reality of our city, and on this path we are working,” he said.
For her part, the Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, has pointed out that “we continue to grow with new development routes and new proposals that schools are making to us.” “It is very important here to integrate education with the business sector and unite both legs,” he said.
In this sense, it has highlighted meetings such as the one that is going to take place tomorrow and to which about 70 entrepreneurs of the city are called, “which are the agents that are, in short, involved in all this training that we develop from the Ministry, because in the end we are combining those needs of the business fabric of the city with the educational needs.”
Official visit
This Monday, the Secretary General held a working meeting with the team of the Provincial Directorate of Education of the Ministry and with the management teams of the centers that provide Professional Training in Melilla.
Throughout this morning, they visited the IES Enrique Nieto, where they were able to see the ATECA classroom and talk to those responsible for the training cycles of Physical and Sports Activities. On the other hand, during the visit to the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia have had the opportunity to taste a breakfast prepared by the students of the Formative Program of Bakery and Confectionery, as well as to see the cycles of the degrees of Automotive, Oral Hygiene, Care of Nursing Auxiliaries and course of specialization of -Maintenance and safety in hybrid and electric vehicle systems.
It is planned that tomorrow, Wednesday, they will hold a meeting with the main companies and entities to talk about the implementation of dual VET in the territory. More than 300 students already receive students in Professional Training practices in their facilities.