The Sepe courses: the nest of complaints behind an endless corruption plot

Manu has done a course of the state public employment service, the SEPE.Says one and no more.He is a graphic designer and wanted to specialize to be a programmer while being unemployed.I wanted to take advantage of the time I had free but states that, in the end, it has ended up losing it to sign up for a course in which you have not learned anything.This case is in Madrid;In Barcelona, Laia has lived a similar experience in its social media management course.In both cases, sepe courses are reported with what is referred to.Some irregularities that add to a long list of controversies related to the formations of the employment service and that load with a plot of corruption with few consequences.

The criticisms of the two students of the SEPE go through insufficient and obsolete training.In the case of Manu, its web development course, HTML, CSS and Javascript was badly focused."Instead of logically teach.

In addition, everything that was taught in the course was outdated about 10 years."The environment that is presented to us in the simulation is Windows Vista or Windows XP, there is even an issue in which we use 'Photoshop CS5.And one of the themes is Dreamweaver, 2010 and HTML4 version(the current version is HTML5 and has been implanted for years), "said Manu.

There is an ongoing investigation and several complaints.But complainants claim overwhelming measures to prevent these practices from being repeated.Apparently, in some centers it continues to occur.Susana Hypertextual, a training autonomous worker for professional certificates in Catalonia, confirms it to Hypertextual.Under anonymity, he explained that some of their companions continue to return a part of their salary to the academy."A lot of money from European funds moves, from the SEPE, academies want to make money and we are in a complicated situation," he said.

These practices have a direct effect on training quality.Carlos Martínez is a former inspector of the Sepe courses and has been one of the most visible figures of the corruption plot related to the salaries of the trainers.He was aware of these behaviors in 2003 and in 2021 he summed up hypertextual that there is no interest in training the unemployed how."It comes a raining money from the EU and it has to be spent anywhere, if you don't have to return it.The instruction is that everything is spent, there are courses where there are not enough students and they become quick, with very little qualified teachers ".

When I worked as an inspector, new teachers saw every year in the same centers.Although this does not have to mean a quality problem, it shows a worrying tonic.

The fear of criticizing SEPE courses

He also witnessed the fear of criticizing courses.Manu, the student who told his story at the beginning of this report, recalled that in their web development course many of the students wanted to claim.But they let them glimpse that the Sepe would penalize them if they did.In this regard, Carlos Martínez added that with the students he spoke with while he was an inspector, they always told him, always under condition of anonymity, that they were charging a subsidy and that they were afraid that they would deprive them of it if they abandoned the training.

It may be that not everyone has that fear - understandable on the other hand - to denounce.Carlos Martínez did not have it, who informed his superiors about the irregularities that some trainers had told him about his salaries.He explained that his obligation was to include it in the report."If I do deaf ears, I am covering a fraud in subsidies".Five other inspectors appeared before their superiors jointly to alert about this case;They received in response an invitation to leave this matter.

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Motivation is important...For the teacher

The response that the former inspector received years ago helps to understand why some trainers may be today in a situation in which a part of their salary has to return to the center where they work.It is difficult to know how much it keeps happening.Declarations like Susana demonstrates that at least there is any case, we know that the corruption plot is being investigated, but little more.

What they have not disappeared are the criticisms of the students, especially those who carry out formations related to digital skills, programming and technology.As in all academies and schools, the motivation and commitment of the teacher plays a very important role.

All the former students with whom he has contacted hypertextual have filed a complaint with the Academy in which they taught the course and before the employment services of their respective communities.In some cases they have received an answer, in others they are still waiting for it but none agrees that they feel that they will take drastic measures to improve the quality of the courses.

Fuentes de la Fundación Estatal para la Formación del Empleo(Fundae) confirmaron a Hipertextual que hay algunos alumnos en cada convocatoria que no alcanzan un grado óptimo de satisfacción con la formación recibida.They claim, however, that "dissatisfaction is not the general tonic detected in system evaluations".

Although, anyway, the complaints that have been proven are answered."Sometimes, they directly suppose the beginning of a monitoring and control action to verify the conditions in which training actions are developed beyond the mere verification of formal requirements, contributing to their quality.".Fundae continued: "In other cases, improvement suggestions with a view to new calls and future improvements are collected.".

Complaints vs..evaluations

Regarding the content of the formations, Fundae sources explained that the subsidized training must be included in the Catalog of Training Specialties, regulated by Ministerial Order TMS/283/2019.Through it, the content is updated as new specialties arise and adapts as the competences of a subject evolve, as is the case of digital.

When asked of this medium related to the complaints of the students who affirm that the contents are outdated and that the quality of the teachers is not adequate, Fundae responded that at the initiative of the SEPE and FUNDAE a specific evaluation was developed on the quality of the quality ofThe training centers operating in the SEPE.

This evaluation includes the control of resources, the technical and didactic means of teachers, as well as the facilities of the centers.The results showed:

The information and evaluations of the case do not yield any data that can be worrying.Anyway, students of some digital skills courses insist on deficiencies.For their part, connoisseurs and witnesses of the corruption plot ask for other types of forceful measures.That teachers have the salary they deserve.And that the bottomless well of irregularities, "scams" and controversy in regards to the courses for the unemployed of the Sepe.