SENA (National Training Service): first State Institution in Colombia to obtain an Educational Quality Certification

 

• With the ICONTEC accreditation SENA ranks as a world class organisation.
• The Institute's goal is to achieve certification of its remaining 114 training centres in the course of the forthcoming four-year period.

This is the first time that ICONTEC has certified a State educational body in the design, development and delivery of integral classroom training services, which for SENA means national and international recognition of its educational processes.

"Along the road towards change and competitiveness, SENA could not have chosen a more adequate alternative than the implementation of quality management - that will enable it to be more efficient and productive and to offer better services to its clients, that include all citizens in Colombia", declared the Director of Icontec, Fabio Tobón Londoño.

The certification was formally handed over by the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, to the Heads of the National Training Centres in Footwear and Leather Manufacture, Woodwork and Construction, Consuelo Gutiérrez de Quijano, María Adela López Cortez and Armando López Cardona, respectively.

"Certificartion of a Quality Management System in all 114 SENA Training Centres is one of the goals of the Institution's 2002-2006 Strategic Plan in line with the National Government's policy of modernizing public administration and strengthening institutional management, in response to the country's need for educating the lesser privileged Colombians" - asserted the Director General of SENA, Darío Montoya Mejía.

Source: NotiSena Virtual. No 4, April 2003

ISO 9000 Standard for SENA

The cover of the SENA periodical has a message about the Antioquia and Chocó Regional Department that we should like to use as a preamble to the present article.

"Rather than a managerial strategy, quality constitutes a way of doing things within organizations", for which reason we are pleased to announce that the following certification has been awarded to SENA:

"The SENA Antioquia Planning Division has been bestowed the ISO 9000 Standard by SGS Colombia S.A. It is the first SENA department to be granted such recognition".

Source: Periódico SENA informa

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