The mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, described yesterday as a “pending issue” and a “peremptory need” the entry into operation of the Integrated Vocational Training Center, the only one of its kind in the south of Tenerife, which is being built in his municipality and which accumulates a delay of three and a half years.
“What is happening in the South in terms of Education is painful, it seems that we do not exist; Projects are given a boost and then they stop. We have given the Ministry a privileged, fantastic and unbeatable land in a wonderful place and we still do not have the key infrastructure to prepare our boys and girls,” the Adeje councilor told this newspaper.
“It is a pending issue, we need that center so that our people can access jobs and be able to configure a society of progress based on intelligence, talent and knowledge,” Rodríguez Fraga insisted.
In this sense, the Adejero mayor gave as an example the project for the upcoming construction of an audiovisual hub in the town of Fañabé, which will require, he stressed, new degrees in the South related to the audiovisual sector. In fact, the City Council has already proposed to the Ministry that this circumstance be taken into account in the CIFP Adeje training plans.
It must be remembered that the Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, stated last Tuesday in Parliament that the delivery of the work “is close” and the idea of his department is that the Integrated Vocational Training Center is operational for the next course, “at least to teach subjects related to tourism, administration or computing.” Suárez pointed out that the work “is already completed” and the reception of the center is currently being processed.
Likewise, he explained that the Ministry is “expediting” the hiring of the person who will be in charge of management, whose appointment will be “imminent”, which he considered “fundamental” to conclude the reception of the facilities, since he will be the person responsible for sign the contracting of supplies, such as electricity service or water supply. The next step will be the equipment of the building, which will include the installation of industrial kitchens, worth two million euros.
Suárez indicated that up to seven extensions of the execution period have been granted (the last on July 10 with the previous Ministry team) and the next day the second modified project was approved, with the consequent economic variation.
The work, awarded in May 2018 to the company Proyecon Galicia – the same company that built, also several years late, the Parque la Reina institute – should have been completed at the end of May 2020.