SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy Minister of Vocational Training and Professional Qualifications of the Government of the Canary Islands, Francisco Rodríguez, has confirmed that the Vocational Training students of the Canary Islands are guaranteed the completion of their internships despite the refusal of the Ministry of Education to grant the Autonomous Communities a moratorium to the pricing of these practices, maintaining, despite the multiple technical problems and the opposition of fifteen Communities, their obligation as of next January 1.
This was stated in a statement following the fact that the spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Sebastián Franquis, has denounced the stoppage in the Canary Islands of registration in the Social Security of Dual Vocational Training students and university students with training plans that include internships in companies.
“The Canary Islands will be prepared to comply with the legal mandate efficiently, with quality, avoiding overloading the educational centers, the management teams and the teachers in said management, since the registrations in the Social Security of the students will be assumed by the Administration” , stated the vice-counselor who on December 22 explained the measures to make it possible in a telematic meeting held with the management of the nearly 180 non-university educational centers that manage internships in the Islands.
In that meeting, held just a few hours after, on the 21st, the Ministry ratified its refusal to modify the entry into force of the internship quotation, Rodríguez explained that the Canary Islands would delay to January 29 the beginning of the internships planned for the first quarter of 2024, so that all the prior procedures necessary for listing can be carried out, with due guarantees, thus guaranteeing legal certainty and avoiding problems for collaborating companies.
The deputy minister also committed that the technicians of the Vocational Training Service would directly advise those centers whose students began their internships in this first quarter, when it is expected that only about 1,500 students will join the companies (the bulk, about 15,000 , they will do it already in the third quarter, when the procedure for managing registrations, cancellations and liquidation to the Social Security of the students will already be perfectly tested).
However, he stressed during his speech that, even at the present time, all the cases that have been presented to Social Security in relation to the multiple scenarios that occur among students studying vocational training remain unclear, hence that despite the fact that the Vice-Ministry has been working for months to provide a quality technical response that does not overload the educational centers, it has been impossible to inform the centers in advance.
In this sense, it must be remembered that, until the last moment (Thursday, December 21), those responsible for Vocational Training of fifteen of the 17 Autonomous Communities, in a meeting by videoconference with those responsible for the Ministries of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, requested that the obligation to register with Social Security all students who carry out training internships in companies be delayed until the beginning of the 2024/25 school year.
“However, reasons have not been heeded and the measure is put into effect on January 1, 2024,” explained Rodríguez Machado, for whom “the request of the Autonomous Communities is not a whim, but pure common sense and a matter of institutional loyalty”.
Specifically, it is based on reasons of legal uncertainty due to lack of regulatory development that clarifies a multitude of situations that have been detected, on the need to carry out prior tests in a complex and massive procedure, which requires avoiding errors and on the need to provide educational centers with telematic tools that facilitate the simplification of these processes and that do not represent an additional bureaucratic burden in their daily work.
The Ministry of Education hopes to respond to all these questions with its measures, whose Vice-Ministry of Vocational Training has assumed the commitment to continue working jointly with the centers and the educational community to make a historical demand, bureaucratic simplification and improvement a reality. of the telematic applications of the procedures that affect FP in the Canary Islands, and not the opposite, as the Ministry of Education has done.
