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The National Education Council (CNE) --a collegiate body of the Ministry of Education (MEC)--regulated the use of as a mandatory instrument to guarantee the national validity of diplomas for secondary-level technical courses. The measure strengthens the security, traceability and reliability of academic records, in addition to curbing irregular practices in issuing diplomas. The determination was published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) this Wednesday, December 17th, through .
Among the main points of the resolution is the requirement for the authenticator code generated by Sistec, which becomes essential for high school technical course diplomas to be valid throughout the national territory. The code will also be a requirement for the registration of diplomas with professional councils and regulatory bodies, when applicable. The responsibility for issuing and registering diplomas remains entirely with the educational institutions, which must insert the authenticator code in the documents issued. Professional qualification and technical specialization courses will not be entitled to the issuance of this code, unless there is specific future regulation.
The standard is based on the , debated in committee, which consolidates Sistec as a central tool for the control and validation of information relating to secondary-level technical professional education throughout the country. Councilor Cleunice Matos Rehem, rapporteur of the opinion, explains that Sistec is being updated to provide greater guarantees to the offers of secondary level technical courses. The system now has the digital lock regulated and returns to having the authenticator code, which ensures reliability to the diplomas issued by the offerors.
The digital lock was established by Resolution CNE/CP No. 2/2025 as a security mechanism to prevent the irregular issuance of diplomas within deadlines incompatible with the duration of the courses. From now on, all high school technical course registration registered in the System must respect a minimum period of six months between the date of entry into the system and the completion of the course for the authenticator code to be released. In exceptional situations, in which completion of the course in less than six months is necessary, the institution must present a formal justification and request specific authorization from the competent validating body.
The resolution also establishes rules for managing enrollment and completion cycles. The registration of each cycle in the System may not exceed a period of five years, and students who exceed this period must be reassigned to a new cycle, ensuring the updating and coherence of information in the system.
To obtain the authenticator code, institutions must complete mandatory registration steps with Sistec, which include registering institutional data and technical courses, in-person or distance learning, duly authorized by the competent education systems; the insertion of legal acts that authorize the operation of the courses; and the registration of students both at the beginning of the course, as enrolled, and at the end, as graduates.
With this measure, the CNE reinforces transparency, legal security and reliability of diplomas for secondary-level technical courses, consolidating the Systemc as an essential instrument for the national validation of professional education in Brazil.
CNE - Collegiate body linked to the MEC, the National Education Council performs normative, deliberative and advisory functions to the Minister of Education. Its duties include establishing guidelines and regulations for national education. The council is made up of two chambers: basic education and higher education, each made up of 12 councilors, responsible for analyzing and proposing educational policies in their respective areas.
