Instituto Nacional Tecnológico - INATEC
(National Technological Institute)
http://www.inatec.edu.ni

The National Technological Institute -INATEC- is an autonomous institution, created by presidential decree 3-91, January 1991, with the aim of contributing to the social and economic development of the Nicaraguan people through the training of qualified human resources in all economic sectors and in all levels of occupations and employment.

The vision of INATEC is to develop a system of vocational training with the participation of the private sector. This system should allow for the training of citizens and help the country face its productive needs in global world.

The purposes of INATEC are:

1. To further the coherent and harmonious development of the qualified technical resources that the Nicaraguan socio economic development requires through the gradual and continuous integration of technical skills, habits, attitudes and ethical, social and cultural values that give the individual the faculty to enter the world of work, exercise efficiently his/her labour activity and have and active and critical participation, both in the labour context and the social context where he/she lives.
2. To cover the needs for vocational training existent in the country according with the requirements of the national productive sector and the individual interests of people.

The goals are:

• To define the national policies on vocational training
• To administrate, organize, plan, execute, control and evaluate the activities of the system of vocational training as part of the national educational system.
• To further the coherent and harmonious development of the qualified human resources that the socio-economic development of the country requires.
• To develop the vocational training in direct relation with the requirements of the economic sectors and the individual interests of people.