SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, January 15. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, announced this Monday a shock plan to improve educational services in the south of Tenerife to address the demographic increase in recent years.
In addition to listening to their proposals, Suárez listed the main actions that, such as the study of the drop in ratios or the insularization of vocational training, are proposed by the Ministry to alleviate the situation.
Specifically, he reminded them that at this time, there are four new facilities in the area in different phases of execution: the Compulsory Education Centers (CEO) of Abades (Arico) and San Isidro (Granadilla de Abona), the Institute of Secondary Education (IES) Las Chafiras (San Miguel de Abona) and the Integrated Vocational Training Center (CIFP) of Adeje.
Likewise, he pointed out that the expansion of another ten is planned: the CEOs Andrés Orozco (Arafo) and Guajara (Fasnia), the IES Magallanes and El Médano (both in Granadilla de Abona), IES Ichasagua and Los Cristianos (Arona) and the Serafín Pardo (Santiago del Teide), as well as the Abona Early Childhood and Primary Education Center (CEIP) (Granadilla de Abona) and the Arona Secondary Education Institute Section (SIES) (Arona).
Likewise, he put on the table the possibility of studying that the town councils offer land or spaces for the creation of new centers or the expansion of existing ones, in order to alleviate the demographic pressure they endure, states a note from the Ministry.
Among the measures announced there will be fifty actions of different significance in centers in all these municipalities – generic improvement, for the creation of Enclave classrooms, canteens, improvement of electrical installations, accessibility – or the opening of the file for the installation in seven of them, distributed between Arona, Granadilla, Adeje, Santiago del Teide and Güímar, of photovoltaic panels that will make these spaces more sustainable places and in which to better combat high temperatures.
SHADE AREAS
The installation of shades and roofs or the naturalization of spaces will also contribute to this, which are some of the demands most demanded by the municipal representatives of southern Tenerife, as confirmed by the general director of Infrastructure and Equipment, Iván González, and the territorial director of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Adrián Delgado, who also attended this meeting held at the Hotel Escuela in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In that sense, Poli Suárez reminded them that, already in December, the Ministry of Education issued several resolutions to make extraordinary allocations with which centers that required urgent actions could improve their facilities.
In the case of this region, 23 centers will benefit from the measure, which have already been provided with 207,730.76 euros to carry out these actions.
