The CAPV Department of Education does not intend to promote Euskera in professional training, nor does it intend to do so: it wants to leave Euskera as it is, because it wants to promote Euskera in the socioeconomic sphere with the staff who do not know Euskera.

The penance of Basque students of vocational training began with Patxi López in the registration of the 2010 course. Until then, Model D of Vocational Training, although gradually increasing each year. That is, in the professional training, the same occurred as in the other studies: Model D above. The data are as follows: In 2001-02, 13.28% of the CAV Vocational Training students studied in model D. In 2009-10, 22.78% of respondents approved the regulation. In this decade, therefore, model D won nine and a half points. Twelve years later, model D is 24.02%. In twelve years, in the section that goes to the course 2020-21, model D has risen one point and four (and that is not to say the students of basic vocational training, where the Basque country is only 1.17%).

To make this data more clear: at the same time as model D of Vocational Training has needed to earn one point, in ESO it has increased by 15.15% and in Baccalaureate by 13.64%.

Why? Simple: unlike vocational training, in institutes, the demand has been met.

Nobody in the Institutes has questioned that the student who wants to study in Model D has the right to do so. Right and opportunity. In Vocational Training, the Department of Education has limited the right to leave a large number of students without options. How? With a short sentence: “If only a linguistic model is planned, this model will be implemented”. So simple. Where has that phrase been written by the Department of Education? Well, in the resolution it publishes annually establishing the “criteria for the configuration of the centers”. It annuls with a resolution the right to the language laid down in the law!

The Department of Education puts ‘planning’ above the students’ linguistic rights If in its ‘planning’ it is not foreseen that a cycle is taught in model D, it will not be taught even if there is a sufficient number of students. Thus, it is understood that in the last decade, the supply of model D cycles and the percentage of students has remained practically unaltered.

Beware! This supposed planning of group formation applies only to vocational training, as in the rest of the stages the right to study in model D is not limited: if there are enough students to form a group, a group will be formed. In Vocational Training, although the number of students is sufficient to form a group, no group will be created if it is not planned in advance.

From the socialist mandate, the Department of Education has thus remained in the growth of model D of vocational training, thus limiting the right of the Department of Education to study in Basque. A resolution.

The Department of Education will publish next week the resolution setting out the “criteria for setting up the centers” for the course 2021-22. The question is simple: Will it maintain the Basque learning limit in vocational training?

The request is also simple: that the resolution to be published next week should lay down the same conditions for Basque learning in high school and vocational training. In other words, as in baccalaureate, in vocational training the criterion is as follows: “In order to form a group with students of a new modality or an existing modality in the centre, a minimum of 17 students of the same linguistic model shall be required, except in exceptional cases where the Director of Centres and Planning shall expressly authorise.” Whether or not planned.

Of course, it will not be enough to repair the loophole of the last decade, but it will be a step. Another step would be to introduce the Basque subject in what is called model A in vocational training, since there is currently no Basque language. Or that in model B half of the school hours are actually taught in Basque.

But that requires intention and project. I see neither one thing nor another from the Department of Education.