The government faces the difficult challenge imposed from Europe of Modernize and bring public administration to European standards of excellence. Therefore, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function has presented The proposal for a new opposition model to the opposites of senior state officials.
This reform will mainly affect the future officials of the A1 and A2 subgroups, that is, those with high specialization functions such as judges, finance inspectors or superior architects, who already had to accredit a specific university degree for the position. With the new framework, in addition to that degree, they must overcome a Postgraduate course two years to opt for a public square.
An opposition with two exams. Minister Óscar López explained that this transformation is based on a system “that meets maximum rigor and European standards”, while seeking to “improve the selection and talent that access the administration.” The objective, according to the ministry in its proposal, is to capture “the best” through an intensive training path, in line with the programs that They exist in France or Germany.
This new system will force the new candidates to first go through an aptitude test, which will serve as a filter to show candidates. Those who exceed this first examm, will access a National Training School for officials, a newly created center where a two -year postgraduate training program will be taught.
This training program will be mandatory before presenting the final exam which, now, will allow obtaining a public square for the specific group for which it has been forming, equivalent to current opposition system.
Not everyone will pass. However, the candidates who will pass the first exam will be more than those who can finally access a place, telling that some of those who exceed the first exam will not exceed the second. That is why those who take and The two postgraduate years successfully finishand do not get the square, they will receive a postgraduate title officially.
According to the Secretary of State for Public Function, Clara Mapelli, with this official title comparable to a university master’s degree, the investment of the two years of training in the School of Officials would be compensated.
New training scheme for high -ranking officials
Academic credits according to the group. Another important novelties of the Ministry’s proposal is to create a training system that follows the European model based on ECTS credits (European transfer and accumulation of credits).
Thus, the highest rank bodies of the A1 subgroup must study 120 ECTS formative credits, while those of the A2 group will require 90 credits that will be taught in the schools of officials. For group B, 60 ECTS will be needed.
For their part, the candidates for places of group C1 and C2 have other novelties. The first is that they will need to complete a training itinerary with 30 and 10 credits respectively, but in the latter cases, the necessary training The square has been assigned once they have been assigned. In this way, each official will receive their training from the interior of the public administration, maintaining the active places and adapting their training to the concrete functions of the position.
The French model. The new academic structure proposed by the Ministry takes its inspiration from the French model of the École Nationale d’Enchion (ENA)created in 1945, and from which four of the last presidents of France have left, including current President Emmanuel Macron that has renovated it.
To launch this new National School, the Ministry has announced a network of alliances between the schools and institutes of the State Administration with the schools and institutes of the European Administrative Space and the universities of the European Higher Education Area. In addition, the system will be linked to State scholarship regimewith the aim of guaranteeing equal opportunities regardless of the socioeconomic level of the applicant.
Reactions against. The trade union associations of officials and sectoral group have already shown their doubts regarding the new opposition system. From the State Finance Inspectors Association (IHE), they warn that this model, allowing to know the identity of the applicants who access the second exam after the course, “entails a very serious danger to the future of the public function.”
For his part, Miguel Borra, president of the CSIF union, assuredto Public That the new model “will not solve the serious problems of administrations and their professionals”, warning that 60% of public employees will retire in the next decade and that currently 30% of the templates are temporary.
They also denounce that this new system can generate more delays in the selection processes that already cause “every year to expire thousands of places for the inactivity of administrations,” he slid.
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