The Nueva Canarias councilors of the Island Council of Lanzarote, Óscar Noda and Daisy Villalba, have presented a motion for the next island plenary session to "carry out the necessary steps" with the Canary Islands Government to "prevent degrees related to the primary sector from disappearing" from the island's educational centers. In addition, they have urged the Cabildo to "request that the student ratios be lowered for islands such as the conejeras. Scales incompatible with those of the large capital islands."
This initiative proposed by Noda and Villalba responds to the news known about the intentions of the Government of the Canary Islands to “eliminate, in a totally authoritarian way, without consulting the teaching staff or the student unions, the higher-level training cycles of Basic Vocational Training (FP) Cycle of Agro-gardening and Floral Compositions and the Adapted Basic FP Cycle of Auxiliary Activities in Nurseries, Gardens and Gardening Centers, both at the IES Teguise, as well as the FP Cycle of Viticulture of the IES Zonzamas, also of a higher level”, argued the also mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda.
"The Cabildo of Lanzarote", Óscar Noda continued, "has to demand that these Training Cycles are not diminished because we cannot forget that Lanzarote and La Graciosa suffer desertification" of their countryside due to the generational abandonment experienced by the primary sector in the face of the strong rise of other economic sectors linked to tourism".
Thus, he added that "fewer and fewer young people are interested in everything related to the primary sector, and this is a consequence of the lack of information and training available in Lanzarote, despite the many fairs and aesthetic promotions that are carried out."
Noda understood that "the countryside in Lanzarote has played and plays a fundamental role for the island's food future", and added that, in addition, "there is a growing demand and interest in everything related to the world of viticulture", without forgetting the "great shortage of human resources in tourist and residential complexes of people dedicated to gardening", so "the unilateral decision of the Government of the Canary Islands leaves our island orphaned of three vital cycles for the future employment of the island of Lanzarote, revealing the non-existent educational strategy, not at all aligned with the employment strategy of the island".
In addition, Noda continued, "incomprehensibly they continue to apply the same parameters as if it were a capital island, further hindering the situation of these studies on the island of Lanzarote. It is more than clear that the words of the regional government and the Cabildo of Lanzarote on the primary sector and the educational offer on the island do not go beyond great headlines and press conferences, but of little or no truly strategic content and promotion of our countryside".