Morales, has promised to continue strengthening technical-vocational education through PROMACEwith which the Provincial Government, in addition to building new school buildings, carries out a component to significantly improve the technological equipment of the schools in the province, as well as to guarantee connectivity in the institutes, “in particular for technical-vocational institutes”. .
In the end, expressed that “it is a pleasure to ratify the course of education, which makes countries free and sovereign”.
The governor of Jujuy was accompanied by the province’s education minister, María Teresa Bovi, and the secretary of Educational Evaluation and Information of the nation’s education ministry, Germán Lodola. The mayor of San Salvador de Jujuy Raúl Jorge attended the act; Work Gaspar, Santillan and Security Luis Martín; the Secretary of Educational Management, Alicia Zamora; the Undersecretary for Educational Coordination Vanesa Humacata, legislators and special guests.
“Professional technical training is linked to the world of work”
For her part, María Teresa Bovi summarized: “1959 was an important year in which a group of entrepreneurs, workers and the state united to strengthen professional technical education with the creation of the National Council for Technical Education, which over the years become the INET.”
The minister recalled that “in the 1990s neoliberalism dismantled professional technical education” and assessed “that today it is back in vogue”, and parents are looking for technical education for their children”.
He underlined that “in Jujuy we focus on professional technical education because it is linked to the world of work”. In this sense, you indicated that it is a question of “connecting education with the new productive matrix and productive diversification”. “It’s about showing our young people that when they leave high school what they’ve learned has a sense of being,” she said.
On the occasion of the Professional Technical Education Day
Vocational Technical Education Day (ETP) is celebrated every November 15, commemorating the creation, in 1959, of the National Council of Technical Education (CONET), currently called the National Institute of Technological Education – INET. This body regulates the teaching of the various technological and scientific specialities.
ETP is essential for the development of a country. It stands for specialization and intellectual prowess. The advancement of science and technology, in Industry 4.0, has served to promote rapid access to vast amounts of information and knowledge for further study and has supported changes that are transforming our daily lives forever.
At the provincial level, new ecosystems and existing production frameworks are being configured, a change in the production matrix and services focused on natural resources (lithium, food, renewable energy), manufacturing (therapeutic cannabis, lithium batteries), the environment (climate change) and various services such as gastronomy in the tourism sector.
