Instituto Nacional de Educación Tecnológica - INET
(National Institute for Technological Education)

www.inet.edu.ar

The INET was created by the Decree 606/95 with the goal of providing the Ministry of Culture and Education of that time with an instrument for the development of the policies related to vocational and technical education.

The INET is a strategic agency in the Argentinean education because of the vigorous drive of technology in the world and in the country. Its mission is to disseminate technology as part of our culture and to design and execute a national policy on technological education and education for the work with technologies. INET is the institution that links the educational system and the productive and work sectors.

An Executive Director with the status of Sub secretary of State directs the INET.

As stated in the Presidential Decree 143/00, the goals of the INET are:

• To offer technical assistance in pedagogical, organizational and managerial issues related to the training and development of human resources that facilitate the process of economic transformation, productive modernization and technological innovation.
• To promote quality in the technological training to ensure the permanent adaptation of the educational supply to the social and productive demands. Quality is promoted through federal coordination and articulation with programmes of support, compensation and promotion.
• To promote and coordinate programmes to satisfy needs that the basic structure of the educational system does not satisfy and that require specific offers according to the student or the social context.
• To organize the Federal Network of Technical and Vocational Training to develop specific technical and vocational training articulated to the different levels of the National Educational System.
• To administrate the regime of Law 22.317 on Fiscal Credits.
• To develop actions related to different processes of educational integration, particularly those processes related to the countries that integrate the MERCOSUR.

The current administration of the INET has created an Educational Policy Programme that has three lines of action. Two of them are new and the third one implies some changes to one of the policies that the INET was developing.

The two new initiatives are the project Technological School and the creation of the Integrated System of Vocational Training. The third line of action has to do with the Programme of Evaluation and the improvement of the implementation of the TTP (Technical Occupational Developments.)