Uruguay: Key socioeconomic indicators

Consejo de Educación Técnico Profesional
Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay - UTU
(Council of Technical and Vocational Training)
www.anep.com.uy/utu/index.htm

The Polytechnic Schools (UTU) depends of the Council of Technical and Vocational Training and was created by decree-law 10.225 of September 1942.

The institutional goals are:

• To offer a basic and secondary technological education through a comprehensive and integral training that prepares young people to participate actively in the economic and social development of the country.
• To promote in the students the abilities of continuous education and the discovering of their vocations.
• To take part on the training of human resources of the country through the technical graduation on the secondary or superior level or through actions of training, updating and further training.
• To allow students to access higher education.

The Council of Technical and Vocational Training achieves the above objectives through regular courses and non-formal educational activities oriented to high and middle technicians and qualified workers.

The tasks of the UTU are:

1. The cultural education oriented to the intellectual promotion of workers and their technical training
2. The whole education on manual and industrial technical knowledge, paying special attention to those related to extractive industries and transformation of national raw material.
3. Complementary education for workers
4. Education on applied arts.
5. Contribution to the improvement of the existing industries and promotion and collaboration on those that can be organized.
6. Information about structure and functioning of the national industries.
7. Exams on technical skills.