Sánchez announces another decree against cronyism in education: this time in vocational training.

Barcelona"The demand for vocational training has skyrocketed, and in parallel, the private sector is seeing an opportunity it previously overlooked and has grown twice as fast as the public sector in just a few years." This is how the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, described the situation of vocational training in Spain, where he asserted that some students pay up to 9,000 euros to study a vocational course. Faced with this surge, the Spanish government has announced its intention to curb private centers that do not guarantee the minimum quality standards for these studies.

In the same way that he announced he would do with the beach bars University professors, Sánchez explained this Wednesday that the Spanish government intends to pass a royal decree to "ensure that those who provide training do so with standards, rigor, and oversight." According to sources at La Moncloa (the Prime Minister's office), the objective of the measure is "to limit the opening of private centers that do not offer sufficient guarantees." It remains to be seen what the decree will actually entail, which Spanish government sources maintain will be put out for public consultation "in the next two months."

Skyrocketing increase

Data on students choosing which courses to enroll in shows that interest in private vocational training has skyrocketed across the country. This is also true in Catalonia, where the private vocational training sector has long been established. overtaking in the subsidized private schools. In fact, in the 2023-2024 academic year, private vocational training It had twice as many students as just five years before..

Regarding the situation throughout the State, a report published in 2024 by CaixaBank Dualiza and Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness shows that, in the last decade, the number of students who have chosen a private center to study a vocational training degree has increased. It has skyrocketed by 467% across the stateIn other words, the number of students in private vocational training has increased fivefold in ten years.