The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, highlighted the enormous investment made by the Spanish Government in Vocational Training in the city of Melilla, stressing that “this Government has made the greatest commitment to VET in Melilla in history”.
“We talk about the fact that in the last seven years 29 new VET degrees have been created, with an increase of 1,200 students, which currently makes a total of about 3,000 students,” he said.
Fernández Treviño has highlighted that this growth responds to strategic planning, and has explained that each year a Vocational Training Commission is established in which the Ministry of Education, the Provincial Directorate, the SEPE, the Employers’ Confederation, the unions, as well as the management teams of the centers that teach VET participate.
“In short, the entire sector involved to establish a field study of the socio-labor market of our city and, from there, implement the cycles that can be successful in Melilla,” he said. This road map, he explained, has made it possible to constantly adapt the training offer to the real needs of the local labour market, which makes VET a key tool for the labour insertion of young people from Melilla.
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The Provincial Director of Education wanted to make a difference with the previous governments of the Popular Party: “Our current model contrasts radically with the model followed by the Popular Party in its years of government, which completely abandoned Vocational Training, with a total disconnection between the model to be followed and the socio-labour offer offered to the young people of Melilla,” he stressed.
“Our current model does link training with the labor market and, therefore, we are able to respond to the young people of our city, offering them a real and viable model,” he said.