Publications

Régnier, K. ; Caruso, L. A. Cruz; Tigre, P. Bastos
Research and development in SENAI;
their impact on industry and vocational training

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2001
50p. (Technical office papers, 11)

 

(Full text only available in Spanish pdf format)

 

 Insofar as the productive sector is undergoing significant transformations, vocational training institutions endeavour to go keep abreast of them, and sometimes bring about changes themselves.

In Brazil, the ‘90s were marked by economic readjustment measures that caused deep changes in the productive sector. Vocational training also went through many changes, both in its regulatory framework (as a result of the new Law of Directives and Baselines) or in the specific field of action of institutions like the National Industrial Training Service (Portuguese acronym, SENAI).

This report – the result of an extensive field survey – underscores one particular change that took place in SENAI activities in the ‘90s, namely, the co-ordination of research and development with teaching activities at schools and centres and with the competitiveness of business enterprises. This "virtuous circle" of the co-ordination of research and education can be taken as a basis for building a vocational training model focusing on technological transfer processes.

 

 

 

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