The Necessity of the Technical Education in Colombia

La Necesidad de la Educación Técnica en Colombia

Since the beginning of the national colombian life, different personages have talked about technical education, the colombian congress in 1850 with the law of the eighth of July have done some attempts to create three Arts and Ocupations Schools but this wasn´t a done successful, unfortunately. The fact with the creation of the Arts and Occupations Central School of Bogotá, decrees number 146 and 184 of the Ninth and eighteenth of February of 1905, an interesting experience was begun because the organizers were technical proffesors: Engineers, French Architects that had created some schools in the European continent. The study plans of the Central School were designed in two sections: the preparatory and the superior levels, they permitted to form students in different and progressive cycles or levels to finish the studies 11 years later, all the courses finished and the students received the academic title in Arts Engineers. In this article the important trajectory of this institution was presented because it has contributed to the industrial development of Colombia and in its 100 years of jobs it has obtained to retrieve its academic intention which it was founded.