Interview of the General Council with the Deputy Director of Academic Organization of the Ministry of Education and Science

On August 23, the President of the General Council, Manuel León, and the heads of the Board of the Educational System of the Council and the Teaching Commission of the Andalusian Council, Pedro San Martín and Rafael Osuna, held an interview with Mr. Juan López Martínez, Deputy Director General of Academic Organization of the Ministry of Education and Science on the Draft Organic Law of Education recently approved by the Government.

It was stated that the last two Education Laws, the LOGSE and the LOCE, contemplated the equivalence of our title to teach secondary education and baccalaureate, but the Bill does not appear in its article 94 this equivalence and in the ninth Additional Provision speaks of "equivalent titles" but without specifying. We do not know if it is premeditated or simply a mistake, but what is evident is that 300,000 Technical Engineers and Technical Architects cannot be left without being able to exercise their teaching function, preventing our young people from receiving instruction in some subjects for which they these graduates are the most suitable. D. Juan López was given the example that currently there is some subject that is being taught by other degrees in which that subject is not studied in his career, which causes a deterioration in the quality of teaching, which is what should take precedence when legislating on education.

The Deputy Director General expressed his confidence that the "qualifications" referred to in the ninth Additional Provision are our qualifications and that, however, he will raise it in the coordination meetings between the General Directorates of the Ministry.

It was also revealed that, if the current text of the Bill is not amended, it will be a profound setback since it marginalizes and disfigures the technological equation. The obligation of the Technology Area is reduced to a single ESO course, its explicit mention in Primary Education Areas is forgotten and the Technology modality disappears in high school. The Deputy Director General told us that the convenience of reducing the number of subjects when moving from Primary Equation to ESO has been appreciated. For this reason, the subjects taught in each of the courses are reorganized, but without this implying reducing the total hours currently assigned. For example, the same total number of hours is achieved by teaching a subject two hours in each of the first three courses as three hours in two courses.

The Council has sent our position and amendments to the text of the Bill and interviews have been requested with all political parties.