Getting the talent that comes out of the universities to stay in Castilla y León will be one of the challenges of the Ministry of Education in the next four years. This was stated this Friday by the head of the department, Rocío Lucas, who has detailed that she will promote a "determined policy" with measures that not only allow young people trained to stay in the Community, but also "capture" and make the " best talent» return.

Among the tools that will be put into operation and that he has presented to the Cortes of Castilla y León as part of his legislature program, he has cited an extension of the scholarships, in which, in addition, a new model linked to the use of academic (for approved credits); a reduction in fees for master's degrees and a more emphatic demand for a single EBAU.

If the education department will also strive for something, he said, it will be to maintain the quality of the Castilla y León system, recognized by different international reports such as PISA or TIMSS. "We do not want an educational model based on mediocrity and the impoverishment of content, nor do we believe that this is the formula to fight against school failure," said Rocío Lucas, who assured that the new Lomloe education law represents a "devaluation ».

For this reason, Castilla y León will continue to bet on the teaching of History in chronological order, will maintain Philosophy in the fourth year of ESO, teachers will have common criteria for graduation and promotion, and Secondary students will have the option of making retakes in the last school days of the course after the September calls were withdrawn by the Ministry.

The free education of children from 0 to 3 years will be one of the key tasks of the department, which will also work on more training in digital content, both for students and teachers, the participation of families in the design and knowledge of the system, a new plan for attention to diversity and the bilingual model, as well as ensuring that more than half of the students have free books.