Basic vocational training and its contribution to the development of competences for educational re-engagement and labor insertion: Student perception

Abstract

Basic vocational education and training (VET) was established under the Spanish Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality as a measure aimed at students at risk of school failure or who have failed, with a dual purpose: to facilitate their permanence in the educational system and offer more opportunities for personal and professional development by accrediting a level 1 qualification. This work, which is of a quantitative nature and uses a questionnaire as an instrument for collecting information, investigates the perception that Basic VET students of the autonomous region of Galicia have of their professional competence development. A total of 148 students (1st and 2nd year) participated in the study, the majority of whom were men in the basic degree cycle of the electricity and electronics professional field. Their responses confirm that, in general, they consider that they have an intermediate or even intermediate-high competence level, and that the gender variable influences competences of a more transversal nature, while the professional field contributes to a greater or lesser extent to the development of competences more closely related to the professionalization of the individual.