Papers

Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the
Latin American and the Caribbean Region

Montevideo 2001

This paper was prepared by Cinterfor/ILO, at the
request of IFP/Skills. Its draft version was presented
at the Regional Workshop on the Modernization of
Vocational Education and Training in Latin America
and the Caribbean, Rio de Janeiro, December 2000

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CONTENTS

Foreword

I. New institutional picture of training in the region

A typology of organisational arrangements in Latin America and the Caribbean
Funding of vocational training

 

II. Training: an occupational, technological and educational issue

Training and labour relations
Training and innovation, development and transfer of technology processes
Training and life long education

 

III. Participation and decentralisation

Workers’ organisations and vocational training
Employers’ organisations and vocational training
Private and non governmental training offer
Local management of training: a space for more actors and opportunities

 

IV. By way of conclusion

 

List of Boxes

Quality management
SENAC of Brazil: growing with quality
The INTECAP of Guatemala is modernised
The governing role of INFOTEP in the development of a National Vocational Training System for Productive Work in the Dominican Republic
A systematic approach in the management of training at the HEART/NTA
Selected TVET Highlights from the Caribbean
Labour Ministries in the field of active employment policies
Brazil: SENAI and the National Technology Centres
Programme to Train Rural Entrepreneurs by means of Incubators. The experience of the SENAR at Bahia, Brazil
Chile: INACAPs´ Technological Centres
Colombia: the SENA and the technological development
Costa Rica: INAs´ Training and Technical Services Nuclei
Peru: SENCICO and innovation in construction technologies
SENATI: technological information services
Venezuela: Vocational Training and Technological Services Centres of the INCE
Integration among educational and training systems in Argentina
A new pedagogic model at SENAC: polyvalence as a guiding principle
Educational activities of the SENAR of Brazil
Distance education and the use of new technologies
Mexico: the Occupational Competency Standardisation and Certification Council (CONOCER)
Experience of the INA of Costa Rica in the adoption of the occupational competencies (skills) approach
Standardisation, training and certification system in occupational competencies in Uruguay
Strategic Planning of the SENAI of Brazil for the 2000-2010 period
Design of a certification system in Brazil
Integration between the vocational training systems and the higher education systems
Honduras: alignment between the vocational training systems and adult education
Trade unions’ participation in vocational training
Employers’ participation in vocational training
Argentine: Vocational Training Council of Rosario and its Region (CCFP)
Local management of vocational training in Brazil
Public Vocational Training Centres in São Paulo and Ceará
National Plan for the Further Training of Workers (PLANFOR) in Brazil
Local management of vocational training in Colombia
Paisajoven Corporation in Medellin
Chile Barrio Programme: support to inhabitants of irregular settlements
El Salvador: Don Bosco Industrial Range