In order to overcome the internship period, trainees of the Department of Education must undertake a training in both Basque and Spanish in their workplace. The unions ELA, LAB and Steilas have denounced, however, that at the beginning of the course the department gave training in Spanish, “as usual”. Also to those who work on model D. In the face of complaints from professors and unions, the department began to offer part of its content in Euskera. “But they are still obliged to do Occupational Health and Occupational Risk Prevention in Spanish because, as argued by the Department of Education, they do not have Basque doctors to give this section.”

Trainee officials have collected signatures to demand that training also be guaranteed in Basque, trade unions have supported the initiative and presented signatures this Monday morning in the Department of Education.

General problems

The problem of the policy against the Basque Country goes beyond the preparation of practices, according to the unions: “Only 16.5% of the training offered by the Department of Education for teachers in general is offered in Basque, being 80% in Spanish. We are facing another attack on the Basque Country.”