Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (short: SENAI, German "national training service for industrial teaching") is a private Brazilian institution of public interest with headquarters in Brasília (previously in Rio de Janeiro ).
history
SENAI was founded in 1942. The Getúlio Vargas government obliged Brazilian industrial companies by law to transfer one percent of the wages they paid to SENAI in order to finance its vocational training centers. The system still exists in this form today.
tasks
SENAI offers vocational training courses of an industrial nature. It is the only organization that offers nationwide courses that are most comparable to German commercial vocational training, but often significantly shorter. Both theory and practice usually take place in the vocational training centers, while in Germany there is a duality of practical training in the company and theoretical training in the vocational school (" dual system "). In addition, SENAI offers professional training and cooperates with universities in academic training in the industrial sector.
The organization must not make a profit. The same applies to the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural , which is responsible for vocational training in the agricultural sector, and the Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial , where commercial training takes place in service professions.
There are 809 branches nationwide. To date, more than 55 million training courses have been completed there. Currently, around 3,000 courses in 28 industrial occupational fields are attended by 2,500,000 students (as of 2012).
literature
Web links
- Official website (portug.)