Laura Poy Solano
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, January 23, 2026, p. 9
Upon his arrival at the General Directorate of Work Training Centers, Francisco Garduño Yáñez, former head of the National Migration Institute (INM), will have a budget of 3,820,641,000 pesos, which in its entirety will be used to pay for services, in accordance with the Expenditure Budget of the Federation 2026.
The organization, dependent on the Undersecretariat of Higher Secondary Education of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), has about 199 federal schools called Training Centers for Industrial Work (Cecati) and 28 Training Institutes for Work (ICAT), in addition to the decentralized organizations of the state governments that have 282 Training Units and 133 Mobile Action units.
To these are added 2,500 private schools, which obtained recognition of official validity of studies (RVOE), which guarantees that those young people who complete their training at one of these sites, upon completing their studies, will be able to obtain an official document issued by the SEP.
According to data from the federal agency, the educational offer of the subsystem is made up of 31 vocational training fields, 55 specialties and 207 courses. It adds that its main function is to regulate, coordinate and evaluate the training service for and at work, in order to help the population access employment.
Regarding enrollment, in the 2023-2024 school year, the SEP reported a total of 2 million 153 thousand 875 people in training for work in its school modality. Of them, one million 330 thousand 81 are women, and 823 thousand 794 men. They are served by 36,413 teachers in 4,1146 schools, of which 2,808 are private.
Likewise, in its first Work Report 2024-2025, the SEP points out that with the Program for Normalization and Certification of Work Skills, until the third quarter of last year, 330,136 students benefited, of which 169,488 were women.
