Institute of Technology - Venezuela

Venezuela

Institutes of technology in Venezuela were developed in the 1950s as an option for post-Secondary education in technical and scientific courses, after the polytechnic French concepts. At that time, technical education was considered essential for the development of a sound middle class economy.

Nowadays, most of the Institutos de Tecnología are privately run businesses, with varying degrees of quality.

Most of these institutes award diplomas after three or three and a half years of education. The Institute of technology implementation(IUT from Instituto universitario de tecnologia on Spanish) began with the Creation of the first IUT at Caracas, capital city of Venezuela, called IUT. Dr Federico Rivero Palacio adopting the French "Institut Universitaire de Technologie"s system, using French personnel and study system based on 3 year periods, with research and engineering facilities with same level than the main national universities to obtain French equivalent degrees. this IUT is the first and the only one on Venezuela having French equivalent degrees accepted, implementing this system and observing the high level degrees some other IUT's were created on Venezuela, regardlees of this the term IUT was not used apropiately resulting on some institutions with a medium quiality and no equivalent degree on France. after this some private institutions created are using the IUT abbreviation on their names but they are no regulated by the original French system and give lower quality degrees.