“Vocational Training (VET) is the present and the future of much of education as well.” The Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, has addressed the high degree of job insertion that this type of studies has in Melilla.
The head of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in our city, in an interview granted to Television Melilla, has referred to how the training offer has grown, with the implementation of new cycles, as well as the demand in Melilla in recent years.
“There have been 26 new professional families that have been implemented in recent years and we have about 3,000 students who are taking Vocational Training, which is three times more students than there were five or six years ago,” he said.
In addition, as explained by Fernández Treviño, the students are doing Dual VET, which is a modality of Vocational Training in which students combine theoretical training in the educational center with practical training in a company.
“They are working in companies from the first year and they are doing internships while learning each of the trades, each of the professional families, from the beginning,” he explained and defended that “we have the theoretical and the practical together.”
Something, the Provincial Director of Education has made clear that “it is very useful for professional outings”, so this student is obtaining a “high degree of professional insertion”.
Adapted to the reality of Melilla
“We do a study of what the city needs, we do it from the Ministry, we do it with the company and we do it also from the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), seeing a little and probing what is the reality of our city and what is needed depending on the characteristics of Melilla,” he explained.
Something, he added, that is also addressed in the bilateral meetings that the Provincial Directorate maintains with the MEFPyD to see what the needs of our city are. “These needs are increasing in certain cycles and it is true that some, such as the socio-sanitary branch, the Nursing branch that has a waiting list,” he said.
But he has also referred to the development of cycles “that think about the inclusion of our students”. Something, he stressed that "it is very important that when they finish a stage, especially in Secondary, that students are not in a state of limbo or abandonment and can study inclusive cycles, as is already happening, for example, in the Integrated Vocational Training Center in Queen Victoria Eugenia, which has a wonderful Cooking and Confectionery", he said. “And now we have proposed one of the floral arrangements and we will continue to grow also in thinking about outings for all students,” he said.
In the words of Fernández Treviño, the FP “faces early school leaving with a 15-year-old student, who may not conform to an ordinary classroom and secondary education normative system that is purely theoretical and can be redirected towards Basic Degree Cycles”.
Something “that will then translate into being able to continue studying Middle Degree and Higher Degree, which is equivalent to a Baccalaureate and being able to enter the University or work directly”, has added value.