A total of 6,000 Vocational Training places have been left vacant for this course in the Community of Madrid. Many of them belong to specialties such as computer science or energy efficiency, which after completing their studies have a high degree of incorporation into the world of work.
"After completing the registration process, there are free places in all basic, intermediate and higher grade cycles," the Ministry of Education points out. Among the most notable examples is the mid-level vocational training cycle in olive oil and wine, which is taught at the CIFP Escuela de la Vid and in which 100% of its graduates find work during the first year upon completion. His studies. However, a third of the places have not been filled.
The same happens in the case of the higher degree in eyeglasses optics, with 88.2% job placement and a third of the vacant positions; or the higher degree in industrial mechatronics, which has a demand for graduates by companies of 78.9% and has more than fifty vacancies.
By grade, 673 places have been left free in the basic vocational training, with the IT and communications, administrative services, office IT and vehicle maintenance cycles with the highest number of vacancies. All of them have high job insertion.
In the middle grade, a total of 1,269 positions have been left unfilled. Those with the most free places are the cycles of administrative management, auxiliary nursing care, telecommunications facilities, microcomputer systems and networks, and pharmacy and parapharmacy, which have a high demand for graduates from companies.
In the case of a higher degree, there are a total of 3,997 free places. Of these, there are up to 300 vacancies in the cycles of administration and finance, management assistance, transportation and logistics, teaching and socio-sports animation, automotive and computer systems administration. Students in these specialties have a high rate of access to employment during the first year after graduation.
Other studies with a strong demand in the labor market that have not reached the available number of students are the basic degrees of manufacturing and assembly or agrogardening and floral compositions; the average degrees of catering services and heat production facilities and refrigeration and air conditioning facilities; and the higher degrees of renewable energy, energy efficiency and solar thermal, administration of computer systems on the web, automation and industrial robotics, electronic maintenance, management of restaurant services and training for safe and sustainable mobility.
Vocational training is one of the areas in which the regional government has made the greatest effort, with an increase of 10,000 new public places for the current academic year, which are added to the 25,000 that were created in the last two years. This year, a total of 169,829 students have enrolled in the various VET studies, 91,611 of them in centers supported by public funds.
“We want to continue offering young people in the region public vocational training of the highest quality, adding each year new places and cycles that respond to the needs of the labor market and that, although less known, practically guarantee them a job in a very short time after finishing their studies," explained Emilio Viciana, Minister of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid.
"Our challenge is to adjust this offer both to the most in-demand profiles and to the different areas of the region so that students can study the cycle they want without having to make long trips, and that is what we are working on," he noted. To which he added: "Last year we had 7,100 vacancies in all FP degrees and this year, with 10,000 new public places compared to the 2022/23 academic year, we have reduced that number to 6,000."
