Technical Education Improvement Program

                                    URUGUAY


SECTOR:                 Education

PROJECT NAME:           Technical Education Improvement Program 
                        (799/OC-UR)

TOTAL COST:             $35 million

FINANCING:
      IDB               $28 million
    LOCAL               $ 7 million

DATE OF APPROVAL:       December 8, 1993

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:    The purpose of this program is to bring post-basic
                        technical and vocational training in line with labor
                        market requirements and improve the quality of educa-
                        tion through reform of the executing agency, the Consejo
                        Técnico-Profesional (CETP) (Technical and
                        Vocational Education Council).

                        The program comprises the following components:  (a) institutional reform
                        of the CETP, streamlining and rationalizing it in order to change the
                        technical and vocational education system insofar as its structure,
                        academic and administrative standards and organization, management
                        capacity and services offered are concerned; (b) improving the quality of
                        education through curricular development and design, human-resource
                        training and supply of teaching materials and libraries; and (c)
                        developing infrastructure and equipment, including rehabilitation of the
                        physical facilities of nine schools and construction of one new school,
                        supply of teaching equipment for 14 schools and installation of
                        computerized systems to enhance the management, administrative and
                        planning capacity of the schools and the central administration. 

CIVIL WORKS:            The main civil works to be financed with the resources of this
                        project comprise rehabilitation and expansion of several
                        schools.  Publication of specific procure-ment notices for the
                        works is slated to begin during the second quarter of 1994.

GOODS AND EQUIPMENT:    The following items will be procured by international
                        public bidding:  equipment (including computers and
                        audiovisual materials); and teaching material for
                        libraries.  Calls for local bids will be issued for the
                        purchase of furniture.  The specific procurement notices
                        will be published from the second quarter of 1994 until
                        1997.

CONSULTANTS:            Consulting firms will be hired for a total of approximately
                        663 consultant/months, of which 539 consultant/ months will be
                        international consultants and 124 consultant/months will be
                        local consultants.  The con-sultants will assist in the
                        preparation of studies and the institutional strengthening of
                        CETP.  The program Coordinating Unit will be assisted by the
                        UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the
                        Caribbean.

EXECUTING AGENCY:       Consejo de Educación Técnico-Profesional (CETP)
                        (Technical and Vocational Education Council)

ADDRESS:                San Salvador 1674
                        Montevideo, Uruguay
                        Telephone: (598-2) 40-3711
                        Fax:       (598-2) 49-8238
                        Contact:   Prof. Eduardo Burghi
                                   or
                                   Edgardo Frigerio