VET in Peru: dual model of vocational training in SENATI

This article provides an overview of the sustainable development of a dual vocational education and training (VET) model in Peru as an emerging country in the last three decades. Servicio Nacional de Adiestramiento y Trabajo Industrial (SENATI) is a private non-profit VET training institution in Peru, founded by the Peruvian National Society of Industries (Sociedad Nacional de Industrias - SNI) in 1961. The SENATI dual learning programme is industry-led and was established in 1985 to provide dual professional training (two learning venues: training company and SENATI - acting as vocational school and inter-company training centre at the same time). German dual VET and competency based training (CBT), coined by the recent Anglo-American technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sphere, have strongly influenced the design and implementation of dual learning programmes. Other topics included are vocational education, differences to CBT, company-based training and an introduction to a new research project of the Technical University of Dortmund called 'PeruDual'. It will examine the factors that have led to sustainable, successful cooperation between SENATI and training companies since its inception in 1985. Research bodies are largely unaware of these factors.

Using document analysis, we find that dual VET in Peru is not based on the relationship of the training companies to the vocational schools, but on the relationship of the training institution SENATI to the companies. We thus conclude that some characteristics of employer engagement (National Society of Industries and training companies) in dual VET are: dual learning (especially in-company learning), definition of qualification standards and of the new training occupations to be offered and definition when to update curriculums. The basic concepts of the dual VET model are: applied didactic, action learning and project method.

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