The Teacher Centers (CEP) were created in order to train the teaching staff through seminars, courses or conferences. They were always a very useful and quite accepted tool in cities and rural areas.
Over the years, however, the CEPs have been experiencing a process of debasement or perversion to the extent that politics has taken over them, in such a way that the directors and advisors change according to the political party to which the Minister of Education of the regional government in turn belongs.
Sometimes there are calls, half hidden, for advisor positions that are characterized by their ambiguity and obscurantism. They are not given the publicity that is required in a process to fill vacancies in a public body. The calls should be published in the official gazette of the autonomous community in question. In addition, the qualification criteria for the projects are usually left in the air with the intention that those affiliated with the political party that is in charge of the Ministry of Education enter. All this goes against the legal certainty of many of the candidates for these positions, who wish to access to provide their services, but receive a door slammed in their faces for not being participants in what is being cooked there.
The CEPs should be training centers characterized by professionalism and neutrality. As part of the Public Administration that they are, the candidates to occupy positions in these centers should do so under the protection of the principles of equality, merit, capacity and publicity and not for having a political card or being affiliated with the party that is in charge of the council. This also usually occurs in the Education offices, full of coordinators and advisors of political affinity.
As long as the CEPs are not professionalized and depoliticized, they can be considered 'nests' of cronies, something very different from what Public Administrations should be.
Jesús Manuel Díaz Lorente. CSIF Delegate
