Countries like Germany, Denmark or France are fighting to recruit Spanish senior technicians.
We told how this educational model has gone from being associated with “mediocre” students and seen as a second course of its sister, the University, to becoming one of the main engines of the country’s economy and a fundamental tool for youth employment.
Things have changed since then. And for the better. FP is already well established as a great door to the labor market. In fact, students taking it have seen an increase of 500,000 people compared to 10 years ago. The reason is found outside, in Europe, which is already fighting to attract our vocational training students.
The data. The number of students does not stop growing. In fact, enrollment has increased by 43.3% in the last five years and young people have a higher employability rate than university students. Almost 83% of VET students find a job before four years, while university students do not reach it before five years, according to the Education Panorama 2023 report, published by the Ministry of Education.
In short: having a university degree no longer guarantees you a future job like before. And more so in view of the data from the State Employment Service, SEPE, which indicates that the unemployment rate drops to only 7.56% among Intermediate Vocational Training graduates and 6.91% among Higher Grade graduates. Or the latest Adecco report, which suggests that 41.3% of job offers are directed to people with FP.
The reign of FP: there are now more offers requiring vocational training than university studies.
Opportunities in Europe. But FP is not only in demand in our country, but also abroad. In fact, more and more European companies are looking for profiles that have Vocational Training cycles in Spain as studies to hire them in countries such as Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France or Belgium, nations hungry for technical professionals given the shortage of labor. work they have. European companies offer between 3,000 and 3,800 euros per month, sometimes with language courses, trips to the destination country or accommodation included, according to ECAC data.
Companies such as Continental Automotive Technologies, POD Int. Personalberatung GmbH, Hofmann, DHL, Cargill, Icl-Ip Terneuzen or Yara Sluiskil are demanding recent VET graduates, due to the high quality of the national educational system.
The tendency. This effective and quick way of meeting the demands of the labor market itself, of finding a job and of having the possibility of continuing with higher studies at the university once completing the FP has made these degrees an increasingly recurrent option for Young. And it is something that the Government supports: in its Plan 2050 report, one of the main priorities is to increase the percentage of the population with vocational training studies from 11% to 17%. To this end, since 2019, the Government budget allocated to FP has increased by 865%.
And this training system will not stop growing because the European Union is working to consolidate the European Education Area, where Vocational Training degrees will be comparable in all European countries. Some German and Danish companies already give this facility to technicians to get them signed.
