The Generalitat received a alluvium more than 15,000 requests automatic Valencian certificates in a single day, issued with the new law on educational freedom and which can be requested by all students – retroactively – who have completed their studies since 2009.
This novelty in the regulations was presented by the Minister of Education, Universities and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, as one of the means of encourage among the families who bet on education of the Valencian -as a linguistic subject- in general, since in predominantly Spanish-speaking areas they can request an exemption, a right that they already had before.
In total, there are 337,000 alumni who can benefit from this accreditation of their knowledge in Valencian, with different levels according to a series of requirements. Thus, those who obtained a grade of 7 or more in the subject at the end of the Baccalaureate or in Selectivity have a C1, with which they can access the Civil Service through competitive examination. In this regard, the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, stressed that this accreditation favors THE investment in private companies.
From this maximum diploma, students can obtain others (A2, B1 and B2) depending on the training cycles they have followed in schools and institutes (or adult training and entrance tests to the ‘University), from primary to secondary, in FP or in the former EGB. , BUP and COU, under the Organic Law of Education (LOE). All information can be viewed at this link.
This file of those who request their certification – free and received by email, once their data has been verified – is integrated into the files of the Knowledge Qualification Council of Valencia, which is in charge of exams in this area for the entire population.
In addition to the intention of the Autonomous Government of Mazón to comply with a question of “justice» and to motivate the study of the language without imposition in basic non-linguistic subjects, in any case with votes in educational centers, the issuance of these titles has other indirect effects.
Several associations families that emerged during the two previous legislatures following the rejection of the previous law on multilingualism which imposed Valencian in classrooms focused on the fact that language requirement for civil servants, this conditioned and press to mothers and fathers at the time of vote in school boards the Linguistic Project Center (PLC).
According to him, their true will was distorted because parents did not want to limit the employment prospects of their children if they did not follow training in Valencian to be able to apply for competitive exams, a fear which today has been diluted or disappears, because they don’t need submit to language immersion like in Catalonia. Likewise, according to these entities, there was a influence hidden in the teacherswho had to pass the language test and joined the nationalist cause.
At the opposite extreme, several the unions such as SETPV or CCOO and entities linked to the independence movement, as well as teachers official language schools, have protested against these automatic certifications because they understood that they devalued the recognition of the level in Valencian. In some cases they have placed it among the attacks against this language, even if the regulations guarantee freedom of choice.
