The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday, at the proposal of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, to allocate 6,747,223 euros to Navarre for Vocational Training (FP), Early Childhood Education, programming and robotics education, and the schooling of people displaced by the war in Ukraine. The investment in these four programs for all the autonomous communities in total is 329.4 million euros.
Navarre will receive 4,106,250 euros for the creation of 2,190 Vocational Training places by the end of 2024. For all the autonomous communities, the Government has approved the allocation of a total of 143 million euros, intended for the creation of 76,479 Vocational Training places. Under this heading, the total number of VET places funded and created under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan amounts to 305,333, thus exceeding the commitment made to the EU. To these must be added the 95,000 bilingual places created to date, which means a total of 400,333 new places.
Since 2019, the Government’s budget for Vocational Training has increased by 865%. This has allowed, among other things, the creation of new professional qualifications and qualifications, the modernization of the system or the increase of 35% of VET students.
Last section of the program for the creation of places from 0 to 3 years
Navarre will receive 2,420,381 euros from the funds for the creation of 391 public and free places of the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (0 to 3 years). This is the last section of the territorial cooperation program, which distributes 142.4 million euros among all the autonomous communities; in total, 670.1 million euros have been allocated since 2021.
Thanks to this investment from the central government, the CCAA will create more than 65,000 places in this stage of education, especially 1 and 2 years, with the aim of improving the reconciliation of families, especially young women, educational equity and territorial balance.
Finally, the Council of Ministers has approved a new budget line to cover the costs arising from the schooling of children and young people displaced to our country by the war in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 38,000 people have arrived at non-university educational centers in Spain. Navarre will receive 220,591 euros of the 41.9 million euros that will be distributed among the CCAA for the hiring of reinforcing teaching staff and conversation assistants, aid for transportation or the purchase of books and school supplies, among others.
Likewise, the Council of Ministers has approved the investment of 1.6 million euros for the School Code 4.0 Program. This item, which is intended for the training in programming, robotics and computational thinking of 5.5 million students from public and concerted schools, is in addition to the 298 million approved last May and will be used for the hiring of teaching assistants, the preparation of pedagogical resources and the acquisition of specific equipment.