Spain to invest 1.3 billion euros in vocational training

MADRID –

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday introduced the federal government would make investments 1.3 billion euros (US$1.43 billion) in vocational coaching.

The measure might be authorised at subsequent week’s cupboard assembly and can create 45,000 bilingual vocational coaching locations, 824 new coaching facilities and greater than 1,500 lecture rooms for utilized know-how and entrepreneurship.

“It is the biggest commitment to vocational training that any government has ever made,” Sanchez mentioned throughout a Socialist Party occasion in Pamplona.

“We are creating more and better jobs… and the best tool is to bet on quality vocational training, like the most advanced countries in Europe,” he mentioned.

The new funding joins the 6.6 billion the federal government has already invested, Sanchez mentioned.

One of the primary goals of the brand new funding, he mentioned, was to assist scale back youth unemployment.

Young Spaniards have already been making enhancements within the jobs market since a 2021 labour regulation introduced in by Sanchez’s left-wing authorities.

(US$1 = 0.9074 euros)

Reporting by Jessica Jones; Editing by Alex Richardson