Venezuela: Key socioeconomic indicators

Instituto Nacional de Cooperación Educativa - INCE
(National Institute for Educational Cooperation)

http://www.ince.gov.ve

The National Institute for Educational Cooperation (INCE) is an autonomous agency with legal status and own patrimony, ascribed to the Ministry of Education. It was created by law in August 22nd, 1959 and regulated by a decree of March 11th 1960. In 1990 the regulation of the INCE is reformed with the purpose of reorganizing it and adequating it to the country’s interests and the process of industrial conversion.

Since its creation it has acted in the area of vocational training contributing to the development through activities of systematic training oriented to future workers and in-service workers of different occupational levels. It also organizes activities of assistance and technical services through the dissemination of knowledge, skills and positive attitudes towards the productive process.

Its mission is to achieve under the guardianship of the state and the collaboration of employers and workers of the productive sectors of good and services an efficient and continuous training of the labour force complementing the education received in the formal system.

Its goals are:

• To promote, execute and enforce the execution of an efficient vocational training of the labour force of the country and to contribute to its specialization through programmes and courses in various occupations and different levels.
• To complement the formal educational system of Venezuela with the purpose of making the institute a valid option within the educational alternatives of the country.
• To establish with the Ministry of Education a system of equivalencies that allow graduates from the Institute to enter programmes of formal education.ow income through programmes of accelerated vocational training directed to the unemployed and the underemployed. The purpose of these programmes is to facilitate self-employment and to incorporate these people to the productive process of the country.
• To orient the design of training programmes of workers towards the achievement of the economic and social goals of the country.
• To organize, develop and promote with the cooperation of employers, learning of young workers through the establishment and maintenance of schools or training centres and programmes of practices within the enterprises.
• To contribute with the rural schools in the objective of training apt rural workers for an efficient use of the land and other natural resources
• To collaborate in the struggle with illiteracy and to contribute to the improvement of the education in the country in all that relates with vocational training.

Vocational Training and Technological Services Centres of the INCE p. 48

in Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region. Montevideo, 2001.