Business-school link programme. AEA – Argentina
- Encourage links between technical schools and the enterprise environment and production.
- Improve quality of relationships between technical schools and enterprises.
- Disseminate good relationship practices.
Students and teachers at technical secondary schools.
The programme was created by the AEA at the request of the Ministry of Education, in order to promote and facilitate closer ties between the world of production and education, especially the technical school. It is free and open to the entire business community.
The relationship between business and technical schools generates benefits for both parties. The contact with enterprises allows technical schools to improve the education they provide, especially in topics related to production environment; and the relationship of the companies with the community is improved through school and teachers with the future technicians.
To achieve its objectives, three lines of action are set:
1. Promoting the relationship between enterprises and technical schools: through publications and events in order to promote the exchange of experiences and raise awareness about the importance of closer ties between the productive and educational world
2. Technical assistance to companies for conducting activities with technical schools:
- Visits to enterprises for teachers of technical schools (upper level).
- Share knowledge: talks on technical subjects, given by employees and aimed to teachers and/or students.
- Study tours for students of technical schools: the programme provides advice to companies for internal definition of the proposed study tour, assistance in identifying and contacting schools, and follows up the plan of activities.
- Jury for a day: evaluation of projects submitted by students as part of the Annual Skills Assessment organized by the Direction of Technical Education of the Province of Buenos Aires.
3. Tutor training in companies: provides a forum for exchange of experiences for companies with internships from technical schools, it is carried out in the modalities of distance education (e-learning) and face-to-face.
- Technical advice to companies for implementing actions such as study tours and training for students and teachers.
- Importance of the link between the educational system and the productive realities, as production methods, equipment and the latest technologies available are aspects that schools should teach to ensure the proper insertion into the labor market.
- Provide a forum for exchange of experiences.
- 80 branches of 45 companies participate in the programme with several activities together with the technical schools.
- More than 100 companies receive advice on legislation, working modalities with schools, internship schemes, tax credit, technical schools data, contacts with other enterprises or government entities, among others.
- 700 teachers participated in the study tours during 2010 and 2011.
- 150 tutors from 25 companies, were trained free between 2007 and 2010.
