The “privatization model” of the president of the Community of Madrid, is increasingly present in the, as denounced on Tuesday CC OO, this time in the field of. A that almost 50% of the 168,000 students enrolled in professional training centers in a private center. And it is not because they want, but because in certain professional branches the greatest offer is in private. “This causes population with lower income to not access it and cannot aspire to the most worthy jobs or better working conditions,” explained representatives of the union during a press conference.
Paloma López, general secretary of, and Aida San Millán, general secretary of, have estimated at 80,000 FP students who go to the private one. Students “enroll mostly in private centers in those modules in which the public has no educational offer,” said San Millán. These areas, mainly, are health, computer science, communications and all training around physical and sports activities. For example, 76.5% of higher health FP students go to private centers.
According to the union, the public offer is greater in the basic degrees and, as progress is made in the formation, private options become stronger. “[En los grados superiores de formación] Where we have greater employability and where we have more worthy jobs, the offer is private, which makes the population with lower income cannot access it and cannot access the most worthy jobs or better working conditions, ”the spokeswoman denounced. The data supports that statement. According to CC OO data, in the higher degree FP more than half of the students (51.9%) currencies their studies in private centers.
There are also marked differences between private and public if ratios are observed. Public centers have higher ratios: 22.2 in the upper FP groups, 21.8 in the Middle -grade FP centers and 15.1 in basic FP groups. In private centers, however, the ratios are 18.6; 18,3 and 14.3 respectively.
“While in the public centers of the Ratios they exceed the state average, in the private ones they are lower, so the infinance of public centers can be interpreted as a mechanism to make public FP less attractive and refer to potential students towards the private sector,” said the union. To balance the situation, CC OO considers the creation of 2,182 new FP groups in public centers and the hiring of 3,711 additional teachers.
Better conditions
Professional training makes the difference in working life and the data support it. According to the report, people with higher education represent 52.9% of the entire employed population. And the benefit is seen in three factors: the reduction in temporality and partiality rates, and in salary increase.
As for the first point, people with basic studies or media suffer from 18.5% labor temporality, a rate that is reduced to 9.9% with studies. The same happens with the partiality: at a higher level of training, less labor partiality rate.
In it also makes an important difference. According to the last one, the average salary of people with primary studies is 17,244 euros, below the wage poverty (18,738 euros). On the other hand, those who have completed the second stage of secondary education reaches 20,998 euros and those who have higher degree professional training amounted to 27,070. “Professional training without any doubt is one of the elements that facilitates the incorporation into the labor market,” López insisted.
Gender gap
The report also points to an important one. Women continue to choose formations directly related to health, care, personal image or sociocultural services, leaving everything technical and industrial to men. “That is why these sectors remain so masculinized. We are not doing anything from education to avoid this segregation between men and women in certain sectors,” said San Millán.
Women, for example, represent less than 10%of the total students in the transport and maintenance branches of vehicles (5.3%), installation and maintenance (5.4%) and electricity and electronics (7.5%). On the contrary, they exceed 75% of students in health (75.4% of the total); textile, preparation and skin (76.2%); Sociocultural services and the community (86.0%) and personal image (93.3%).
