📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Secretariat of Professional and Technological Education (SETEC), officialized the resumption of the initial training program in Basic Education Professionals of Public Education Systems (Deep). The program will have an investment of R 21 million, from the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment (Pronatec), and will offer 3,500 vacancies in technical courses in the distance modality to support professionals who work in public education systems of basic education, with the workload according to the.
According to the, published on Monday, June 2, the deputy is intended to promote the valorization and qualification of these workers, bringing improvements in the management and services offered by educational institutions. The courses include the following areas: School Secretariat; school feeding; didactic multimedia; and school infrastructure. Other areas may be added, depending on the need for training, especially for vocational and technological education.
The depth will be coordinated by SETEC and implemented from the articulation with the education systems, in collaboration with the federated entities. The offer of courses will be given by the educational institutions that make up the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education or by state and district schools.
Historical-originated from the union movements of the 1980s, which defended the formation and appreciation of education workers, the depth was influenced by regional projects such as the Arara-Azul Project (MT); the professional courses of the municipal network of Cuiaba; programs of the state network of Acre and the Federal District; and the Cedar Foot Project (MS). Established by MEC through Ordinance No. 25/2007, the program was expanded as part of the National Policy for the Training of Basic Education Professionals, regulated by Decree No. 7,415/2010 and reaffirmed by Decree No. 8.572/2016.
In 2017, the program was discontinued. In this management, a working group was instituted by, and, under the coordination of setec, determined the resumption of the depth. The proposed action is in line with goals 11 and 15 of the current National Education Plan (PNE).
The resumption of the program aims to raise the level of education of professionals; improving the quality of services provided in public schools; and the appreciation and recognition of education support workers as essential members of the educational process.
