Are we astonished at the irregularities published by Argia in the financing of vocational training? Article 2630. But we were shocked to get the instruction referred to in the article, which was sent to the vocational training centers. It is incredible that a public administration official should write such an instruction. Or it may be that until now this is a very standardized and internalized activity in Vocational Training, without being aware of the requirements to follow when there is public money in the Public Administration and of the specific rules of public calls and program development, perhaps driven by the inertia that previously worked in the Direction of Professional Training and now in the Vice-Office of Free Affairs.

When we began to ask for clarification, when we received the first answer and saw that the Lehendakari sent the issue directly to the Department of Education and, more specifically, to the Vice-Ministry of Education, when we were told that the Lehendakari knows nothing and that nothing was clarified, we immediately understood that Argia was right in his article. We confirmed this when we saw in the Basque Parliament that the hearing of the Education Counsellor and the Vice-Counsellor for Education scheduled for 10 April was postponed by agenda problems. It is curious when the chief doctor came on the same day to discuss another issue. How long will the agenda problems last? Until the return of the May elections? Or until the decree of the TKgune program is passed and the house is ordered to solve the issue? If so, less bad.

But the main question is: Should this model be legalised? In other words, if the network of educational establishments and companies is based on the provision of services by educational establishments and the payment of bills by companies, should this programme or extraordinary funding be legalised? In this case, the centers must be discharged from the Economic Activities Tax. Should they be discharged from the Professional Training they provide in the Economic Activities Tax of each family? If the services they offer are subject to VAT, how do they charge it and how do they declare it? How has VAT been avoided so far? Can tax fraud be channelled and legalised from the institutions?

Although the replies sought to confuse parliamentarians with various laws and articles of the general decree, the lack of regulation of this particular programme is evident.

In addition to regular funding, the centres should submit to the calls for access to the various programmes and aids. Not in the TKgune program! Neither the schools, nor the companies. Here is a list of companies that I don't know who decides. And what is the criterion? Why do some companies and not others? Although the door is open for schools to come, if they so decide, to other companies, but without additional funding. Additional amount for visits, projects and services. The objective, a project of four visits and a service of five projects. The teaching staff as a commercial. All of this has been called the network, collaboration, transfer of innovation. Is this not unfair competition? Would it not be an economic dismissal for students leaving VET centres?

Some of the statements in the instruction are also serious. For example: “We must avoid mentioning that the visits and project definition are funded.” Do you want to fool small businesses?

How is everyone’s public money used? The Instruction states that in order to enjoy the aid of 25% of Lehendakaritza, the invoice will be presented to the company for the value of 100% of the service, indicating that the aid of 25% will be applied to it. Invoices for training and advice and not for innovation. And how is it invoiced in the integrated centers? In other schools? When I read this, I understood the rush that I had a couple of years ago to become an integrated center to have a NIF own tax ID number. But the other center models have the government's NIF, right? The centers are creating foundations. Several foundations, is this going to be done and that will be the legal framework? The FP Vice-Ministry has initiated a risky “game” with multiple vertices, transforming the functions of educational centers and teachers in the name of innovation and the network, to the point of giving commercial functions to the teaching staff.

The Vice Counselor is selling the idea of Vocational Training brilliantly. But beyond the idea, the Government should order and direct the management of Vocational Training, so unknown among the citizens, and we are not served by the excuse that so far it has not had a legal framework. Firstly, because public responsibilities require direct management of public money.