THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM IN SPAIN

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THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM IN SPAIN
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THE SPANISH VOCATIONALTRANING SYSTEM (I)

• Initial Vocational Training
• Management through the education administration
  (Ministry of Education and Science and Autonomous
  Communities).
• Qualifies young students in the performance of a
  professional activity.
• Legal Framework
• Organic Law for the Regulation of the Education
  System (L.O.G.S.E., in Spanish)
• Law for Education Quality (L.O.C.E., in Spanish)

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THE SPANISH VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM (II)

• Occupational Vocational Training
• Managed by the State Public Employment Service
  and Autonomous Communities' Public Employment
  Service.
• Oriented to the placing and integration of the
  unemployed people.
• Its legal framework is the National Vocational
  Training and Placing Programme (Plan FIP).

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THE SPANISH VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM (III)

• Ongoing Professional Training
• Managed by Social Partners, together with the
  State Public Employment Service.
• It aims to offer continuous training to employed
  individuals.
• Regulated by National Agreements on Training and
  Tripartite Agreements on Continuing Training.

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ORGANIC LAW OF 5/2002ON QUALIFICATIONS AND
VOCATIONAL TRAINING


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• 1.- Finality of the act.
• 2.- Basic principles and purposes.
• 3.- Instruments and Schemes of the NQVTS.

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1.- Finality of the Act.

• To set up as basic rule for the development of
  a new standard in Vocational Training.
• To create and start a National Qualification and
  Vocational Training System
• To unify the three existing subsystems.
• To integrate the system of assessment and
  certification.
• To meet the needs of persons and production
  system.
• To promote a publicly funded offer to guarantee a
  lifelong training.

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2. - Basic Principles and Purposes.

• To provide a quality training oriented towards
  personal lifelong development.
• To aim Vocational Training to guarantee the right
  to work and satisfy the needs of production
  system.
• To guarantee equal access for all individuals to
  life long training.
• To incorporate in the training offer the
  perfomance of entrepreneurial activities,
  self-employment and the entrepreneurial spirit.
• To provide the persons and entities concerned
  with proper information and guidance in matters
  of vocational training and occupational
  qualification.
• Adjust vocational training to European Union
  criteria to take advantage of the oportunities of
  the single market and to make possible the free
  circulation of workers.

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3.- Instruments and schemes of NQVTS.

• The National Catologue of Vocational
  Qualifications, wich shall be modular in
  structure, shall organise the occupational
  qualifications identified in the production
  system by recognisable skills that can be
  accredited and are appropriate for occupational
  use.
• A procedure for the recognition, evaluation,
  accreditation and recording of occupational
  qualifications.
• A system of information and guidance in
  vocational training and labour matters.
• A procedure for evaluation and improvement of the
  quality focused on the attainment of objectives.

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Conclusion

• Integration the three Vocational Training
  methods.
• Create Integrated Vocational Training Centres.
• Recognise Competencies and Qualifications.

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• National Qualifications System
• - National Qualifications Catalogue -
  Vocational Training Modular Catalogue
• Cooperation with Companies

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THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING REFORM

• REGULATED VOCATIONAL TRAINING.
• FPR CERTIFICATIONS (INTERMEDIATE AND
• HIGH LEVELS)
• OCCUPATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING.
• ( PROFESSIONALISM CERTIFICATE)
• (CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING.
• PROFESSIONALISM CERTIFICATE)

• NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS INSTITUTE
• National Qualifications Catalogue
• Vocational Training Modular Catalogue.

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