Although foreign students represent only 6% of the majority of students in the Community, or around 21,000, over the last two years Galicia was the autonomy that registered the greatest increase in non-national youth in its classrooms.In this context, in parallel with the demographic crisis caused by the low birth rate, and in order to “anticipate the challenges” that it may bring, the Regional Executive will propose this first quarter of the academic year 2024/25 a reception plan with the objective of “favoring” their integration, both from a formative and emotional point of view.
This was announced yesterday by the head of the Education portfolio, Román Rodríguez, in an interview with Europa Press, regarding the challenges that the sector will have to face throughout this new school year, one of them being precisely the demographic challenge. This strategy will seek ““promote the integration and social cohesion” of these children, with measures “related to reading, language skills, emotional well-being.” “We have a lot of hope in this project,” the mayor stressed, without ceasing to affirm that, according to international reports such as PISA, Galician students “are the most tolerant towards other cultures.”
“Its presentation will take place throughout this quarter and, from there, we will begin to work to be able to implement the measures,” he indicated, advancing that it will be closely linked to the Xunta Return Plan, intended to bring Galicia back to Spain. . the diaspora, and with the FP: “More and more, we realize that in the professional training centers there are a greater number of foreign students, mainly Latin Americans.” A question that, according to him, is not new for the Galician community, where the reception of foreign students has been done “since forever”, taking as an example the arrival of Ukrainian families and unaccompanied migrant minors.
The new course will generally begin on the 11th, with a total of 174,998 students and, although the head of Education did not want to go into details because the Orzamentos are still in the “very first steps”, he said that The amounts from your Ministry and that of Health will be the highestbecause the autonomies support these “great pillars of the welfare state”.
