Spain to invest 1.3 billion euros in vocational training

A man checks his documents after leaving a government-run job centre in Malaga, southern Spain January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training.

The measure will be approved at next week's cabinet meeting and will create 45,000 bilingual vocational training places, 824 new training centres and more than 1,500 classrooms for applied technology and entrepreneurship.