An example of direct participation of the corporate sector in vocational training is the Rural Sector Social Development Corporation (CODESSER), now called National Agriculture Society Educational Corporation, although the former initials are still used. It is an affiliate of the National Agriculture Society (SNA) of Chile, which is more than one hundred years old, and was established in 1976 with the purpose of "co-operating for the improvement of educational and cultural conditions and the technical and vocational training of people linked to rural activities; promoting, organising and co-ordinating occupational training to benefit agricultural workers; facilitating technical, health and hygiene assistance; and contributing to the improvement of rural living conditions, seeking the overall development of the rural population and its effective incorporation into the national community."

These objectives go way back: the SNA was founded in 1838. Very soon its General Board, on the basis of an analysis of the importance of labour as the main factor in the production of goods, added another responsibility to those established at the time of its foundation: "to improve the rural sector population, the main instrument of its work, and without the operations of which Society’s efforts would be in vain and its labour and meditations would be fruitless."

CODESSER activities are focused on forestry, agriculture and livestock, and agro-industrial education at the middle and upper levels, and on training of young people, employers and workers throughout the Chilean rural area. The establishments it manages (16 secondary schools through which 19 educational units operate) include 90% of the arable land of the country, and its educational activity is addressed to students of middle and higher educational levels; employers interested in updating their knowldege, renewing technologies and upgrading agricultural business management; unemployed youth; men and women involved in the SENCE training programmes; and agricultural workers interested in specialising according to their own needs. The institutional activities of the Corporation are performed in four large areas: management, education, production and community relations. The educational area includes four types of services: formal education, training, teacher development and transfer of technology.

This institution has been recognised by the National Training and Employment Service (SENCE) as a technical executing agency (OTE) and is accredited by the Centre for Pedagogical Research and Development (CPEIP) as a teacher development executing body. It is the institution in charge of national co-ordination of technology transfer groups (GTT) which use, as their operational headquarters, the establishments that the National Agriculture Society Educational Corporation manages throughout Chile.

With regard to its projection into the future, CODESSER plans to concentrate its endeavours on formal education and teacher development; to incorporate a larger number of employers into education; and to strengthen its schools as centres that provide a link with the rural world. On this last point, it plans to expand the educational process to the entire area of the establishments it manages, changing student screening processes in order to provide greater opportunities to individuals coming from distant rural sectors whose education is more deficient but who have a real vocation for agricultural, agro-industrial or forestry work.