As those of you who are interested in this world know, from time to time reports appear full of statistics on the Spanish education system. And among the elements that we, journalists, will examine first, there is the number of young people without secondary school or ninis there are two aspects in the country in which Spain historically stands out for the worst.
Before continuing: calls ninisYou know, these are the young people who neither study nor work. This is a term that I encourage you not to use because it is derogatory, because it ignores the reasons that could lead someone to find themselves in this situation and puts the burden on that person, as if it It was always his decision. There was a time when we were champions of this statistic, when the brick-and-mortar bubble burst and all these young people who left school because there was easy money in work found themselves overnight without work and without the possibility of studying because I didn’t have one in high school
The fact is that we ask our young people to study, to train, but we do not let them do so. We don’t even give them the opportunity. I thought about all of this last week while writing this. some 50,000 people find themselves without a place in the public network of Professional Training of the Community of Madrid, and later, when we spoke with some of them and They explained their frustration to us.
When you run out of space in the public sector, you basically have three options: you go to the private sector, you stay at home, or you look for a job. Private employment is not even an option for many families: it is between 2,000 and 4,000 euros per year, depending on the center, in a country where the most common salary is 14,586 euros per year. There are only two left: stay at home or look for a job, the latter option which, for someone with at most secondary education, the usual place from which one pursues professional training, does not seem to be a panacea.
Few autonomous communities meet the demand for places in the public network. Although the queens (one more year) are Madrid and Catalonia, in this report We include people left behind in Asturias, Zaragoza or Jaén. The normal consequence of the absence of a public offer is of course the involvement of the private sector in the matter. In the article you can see how much private supply has increased in your community and how much (less) it has increased in the public community.
There are also those who, precisely because they do not remain unemployed for a year, enroll in the baccalaureate, as Andrea told us. In these cases, it’s almost worse (not because of Andrea, of course, who does what she can): there is someone who takes a place in something he didn’t want study and another person who cannot access this place at the Baccalaureate either.
The problem is more than detected by the communities, it has been going on for several years without any sign of resolution. What we don’t understand is that later, when the reports are published, we will raise our hands because Spain is the European leader in early abandonment or ninis. We practically push them to do it..
This week we also talked about…
The teacher who sent homophobic messages and ended up needing an escort. This happened at the Basque Public University. His messages broadcast on social networks praising the Franco regime and containing sexist and homophobic content, and the teacher had to ask for an escort after a group of people did not allow him to leave the class.
Free University in Asturias. But for those who can’t pay itas President Barbón announced. It remains to be determined up to what level of rent will not be paid. An advance: for Science students who pass 65% of the credits, the next course will cost zero euros.
The “language wars” at school. You know, these battles between ideological groups over the use or not of co-official languages in the classroom. With a double chapter this time. The week began with the warning from the Council of Europe about the “deterioration” suffered by Valencian and Catalan due to the policies of the PP governments in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. “It’s worrying” that 25% of Catalan is imposed at schoolmaintains this organism.
In Galicia, the Galician Royal Academy demanded that the Xunta increase the limits of teaching in the Galician language that Feijóo established in 2010reducing the presence of the Galician language in schools for the first time since Franco’s reign.
The tides return. You will remember that at the beginning of the course we talked about a coming fall of protests. Well, they’re already underway in AndalusiaTHE Valencian Community, Navarre And Madrid.
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Habemus new selectivity? Perhaps you have read that the new Ebau will take place like this or even that there are already dates to celebrate it. There is nothing definitive yet. What emerged was a proposal from the CRUE, the conference of rectors, who are only an interested party in the process. An important part certainly, but only one. The final decisions are made by the autonomous communities and for the moment only Galicia has disclosed an official document.
Are you opting for tablets? Once the ban on cell phones in schools is more or less achieved, some families are upping the ante. The goal now is tablets. Kill technology in school! So without nuances.
Change the school name to continue cheating. The private school Gaztelueta de Leioa – the best known of the Opus Dei schools in Euskadi for the case of sexual assault on a student – used legal subterfuge to maintain the veto of women in its classrooms and, at the same time, not lose public aid for the educational concert in Early Childhood and Primary, prohibited by law for centers that segregate. And this with the consent of the Basque Government. Here the details.
