The ‘Bankia foundation’ for the Dual Training, the ‘Generalitat Valenciana’ and the Universitat de València have published, today, the study: ‘La Formación Profesional en la Comunitat Valenciana, situación y directrices: visión territorial’ where they analyse the state of the FP in the entire community.

The study has been developed by the Universitat de València in collaboration with the University of Alicante and the University Jaume I, who have consulted to educational centres, experts, syndicates, responsible of families of Professional Training, entrepreneurs and public administration to offer a general photography of the professional training in the Valencian Community.

Overall, the texts reflects the wide informative offer that the system has, which allows to form workers to be able to develop in any necessary job in every economic sector.

The professional families that gather a greater number of students are the ones in the basic level of Administration and Management, Informatics and Communications and Electricity and Electronics. In the medium level, stand out the ones in Health, Administration and Management, and Informatics. Regarding the superior grade, the families with the greater request are Sociocultural and to the Community Services, Administration and Management, and Health.

Regarding the ownership, has been observed than most of the centres that impart Basic Professional Training are public, meanwhile for the Medium and Superior Grade there are more state-subsidised and private centres.

Generally, the distribution of centres and students depends on the population concentrations limiting the development of the areas with less population to a lower offer. In these areas, the students can study only the families offered in their area. The study presents the possibility to create solutions so all the students can perform the families of the Professional Training that they are interested in, so the demands of the productive sectors can be attended. As an example, highlights how in areas with a great agricultural, craft or fishing tradition it will be needed a special approach to facilitate the permanence of the student in the territory and the continuation of the work activity.

The researcher team

Under the academic direction of the professor os the Universitat de València Jorge Hermosilla (Departament of Geography) and Joan María Senent (Comparative Education and History of Education), the researcher team has been composed by the researchers of the Universitat de València Almudena A. Navas (Didactics and Educational Didactics), Joaquín Martín Cubas (Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administrative Law), Paula Jardón (Didactics of the Experimental and Social Science), Míriam Abiétar (Didactics and Educational Organization), Ghaleb Fansa (Geography) and José Vicente Aparicio (Geography).

For its part, the University of Alicante has participated with the professor Antonio Puche (Human Geography) and José Miguel Giner (Applied Economics and Political Economics.)

And from the University Jaume I of Castellón have been part of the research team Luisa Alama and Vicente Budí from the ‘Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Local.’