Since the 2017 academic year, Vocational Training studies are undergoing an important change. Enrollments have increased by 19.5%, which has meant that many public centers have had more demand than places offered. Faced with this reality, and to promote the training of technicians and senior technicians, the Ministry of Education and Professional Training opted to turn VT around and recently released the draft of the Royal Decree Project establishing the Regulation of the Vocational Training System, which will be transferred in May to the Council of Ministers for approval.
Educaweb experts have analyzed the most relevant points of this draft and highlight as key aspects the incorporation of new teaching and professional figures in VET centers that will be dedicated to promoting internationalization and orientation; the implementation of new subjects in all intermediate and advanced vocational training cycles, such as Technical English, Digitization Applied to the Production System and Sustainability, and more flexible itineraries, so that degrees can be merged or combined, in order to customize itineraries .
Another aspect to highlight is that double degrees will be promoted. This means, according to the experts consulted from Educaweb, that Grade D offers will be promoted, that is, training cycles, which integrate two qualifications of the same level from the National Catalog of Vocational Training Offers, which will be called “double training qualifications”. Professional”. These trainings will be carried out in three academic years. Likewise, the centers will be able to offer training cycles that integrate the Spanish curricula and those of a second country, under the name “double international qualification in Vocational Training”, once it is recognized by both countries.
In addition, VET centers will incorporate new profiles of collaborators as part of their teaching staff. Among these we find the expert of the productive sector, who will be able to impart training related to his experience; the senior teacher, retired teachers who carry out mentoring tasks with new teachers in the professional modules in which they taught; the company senior, who can join the centers to give classes in the event of a lack of teachers or to guarantee the updating of the curriculum in the center, and the company prospector, who will be in charge of facilitating contacts between Vocational Training centers and the companies.
In addition, the document highlights that the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, and that of Universities, will make it easier for VT centers and university institutions to collaborate and carry out new relationship models to link companies, universities and Vocational Training centers, ” in order to create scientific and business innovation and optimize resources”.
