One of the hangars of the aeronautical school of technical secondary education Nº7 “Taller Regional Quilmes” / Photo: Camila Godoy
In Argentina there is a wide range of specialties offered by public technical secondary schools to answer a key question: “What can I study?” From a technical degree in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, through profiles on Computing, Interior Design, Electronics or Energies.
The options not only cover the secondary level, there is also a higher level and another linked to professional training, where you can find trades such as Home Electrician Installer or Carpentry. Where and how to look for these specialties?
There is the case of an aeronautical school where those who graduate can later be empowered to sign the plane’s papers so that it can fly. It is in the province of Buenos Aires, in Quilmes, where the Technical Secondary N°7better known as “IMPA”.
There, 1,050 students, of which 120 are women, are studying the seven years required to graduate in one of the two degrees offered by the institution: aeronautics and avionics. With a double shift and dining room included, this institution stands out for its training and professional responsibility.
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When touring its facilities, the wooden structure of what will be an airplane model stands out in the carpentry workshop and the hangars in the park anticipate an encounter with aeronautical history.
“This (by pointing to an airplane) is a work done by a group of seventh-year students in the area of Professional Practices, which was put in conditions an aircraft that operated in Malvinas. He did not fight but he did operate by transporting pilots and doing some work that had to do with auxiliary tasks during the conflict,” Jorge Juares, director of the school, explained to Télam.
The aircraft had had an accident on landing, and what the students did was retake the documentation, repair the engines and the entire belly of the plane, and repaint it to the configuration it would have if it operated in the current era.
Graduates are involved in the country’s civil aviation, from small flying clubs to airline companies such as Aerolíneas Argentinas / Photo: Camila Godoy
It was part of a project that we have in the institution on Malvinas and that was called “55 heroes”.
“It is a public management school with an agreement with the Air Force that has two specialties: the aeronautical technician, that is dedicated to the electromechanics of the airplane; and the avionics technicianwhat is dedicated to aircraft electronics, which implies the presentation of data in the cockpit, communication and navigation,” Juares added.
Those who graduate are technicians and enroll in the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) and the Professional Council of Aeronautical and Space Engineeringto work in any flying club or in an air company, any of them, Aerolíneas Argentinas, for example.
“When they develop professionally, they are dedicated to managing the hangars and releasing the aircraft to service, this is the person who signs the plane’s papers so that it can fly,” said the manager. But he also mentioned other areas within professional concerns. “The aeronautical profile can work in quality systems, for example.”
And in the case of avionics, he said that the electromedicina it is also within its purview since the sophisticated equipment that deals with electronic physical principles applied to systems is very similar to that of the airplane.
“We also have international concernsuch as the authorization of ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) to operate from the Mexico line downwards”.
The manager said that many students become teachers at the school when they graduate, and generally perform in the subjects that are taught in laboratories and workshops.
The classrooms of the aeronautical school of technical secondary education Nº7. / Photo: Camila Godoy
training proposals
“For a boy or a girl who is starting their high school career today, without a doubt, Professional Technical Education (ETP) is an option because you have a huge range of possibilities and orientations, and a certain chance of a qualified job,” Gerardo Marchesini told Télam. , Executive Director of the National Institute of Technological Education (INET). The manager remarked that they are training courses that prepare them for the world of work
Professional Technical Education in Argentina adds up to more than 1,600,000 students, of which 775,486 belong to the technical secondary school, according to INET figures. There are 3,906 ETP institutions, made up of 1,723 for technical secondary, 1,374 for Vocational Training, and 809 for Higher Technical.
He State Sector represents 87% of the ETP.
The specialty search engine
The INET has a search engine made for people to find where to study: at the secondary, post-secondary and professional training levels (where there are a variety of trades).
The search engine corresponding to Technical Secondary Level offers to search from of keywords like “Computing”, “Design”, “Electronics”, “Air Conditioning”, “Agriculture”, for example, in order to find the title of the desired training, with information about the places where it is taught. In addition, you can specify the province and the department, and mark the type of institution (State/Private) desired. If a person is looking for a specific education, he may have to try different keywords to find the required title.
Among the traditional specialties is Master of Works or Electronics Technicianbut also more recent ones such as Food Technology Technician, or Technician in Information and Communication Technologies.
The search engine works the same way for the Higher Technical Level and the Vocational training. the first case responds to those people who wish to study post-secondary studies that facilitate their professional performance.
while the Vocational training focuses on socio-labour training for and at work, oriented both to the acquisition and improvement of qualifications and to the requalification of workers. Its objectives are to prepare, update and develop the skills of people for work, whatever their initial educational situation. There are a variety of trades in the provinces that are selected.
For example in Vocational training you can find titles like “Advanced PC Operator”in Formosa; “Installer in Renewable Energy Electrical Systems” in Tierra del Fuego, or “Growing in Greenhouses”, in La Pampa. Also Home Electrician Installerin Buenos Aires, or Fine Work Carpentry, In cordoba. More options: PlumbingIn San Juan; Installer and Repairer of Refrigeration Equipment and Systems, in Santiago del Estero; and Technical Drawing, in Salta.
