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Technical careers of the IESTPFFAA, attached to the Mindef, generate employability for young people who performed their Voluntary Military Service. The Public Technological Higher Education Institute of the Armed Forces (IESTPFFAA) continues to consolidate itself as a reference in the technical training of graduates of the Armed Forces Institutes, with more than 60% of its graduates joining various companies and institutions nationwide.
Through 12 academic programs, this entity - attached to the Ministry of Defense, led by its head Walter Astudillo Chavez - contributes to covering the deficit of technical professionals in various fields of the productive sector, training young people who served their country in the Voluntary Military Service.
Specifically, the Vice Minister of Defense Policies, Cesar Torres Vega, highlighted that the Defense sector is focused on this objective: We are strengthening the Institute of the Armed Forces, the pillar of the development of a country is education with a focus on values, with science and technology, he said.
He added that the employability generated by the technical careers of the IESTPFFAA, since its operation in 2015, is an opportunity for development for job insertion in the productive sector and the undertaking of new business initiatives.
In fact, the work to expand the construction of this institution is underway through the mechanism of Works for Taxes, projecting an infrastructure of 72 classrooms, 1,500 accommodations in the student residence, 25 workshops, 79 laboratories, as well as a main hall, auditorium, library, coliseum, gymnasium and swimming pool.
Since the first IESTPFFAA class graduated in 2018, more than 2,100 young people have graduated from its classrooms, after completing a three-year degree in the following careers: Industrial Electronics, Civil Construction, Computing and Information Technology, Production Mechanics, Automotive Mechanics, Hotel Management, Forest Resources Management, Systems Analysis, Mining Exploitation, Food Industries, Machinery Maintenance and Topography.
In addition, the institute is equipped with 104 workshops, such as laboratories with heavy and hydraulic machinery simulators, welding workshops, among other environments. Also, the entity has signed 49 agreements with companies and 23 agreements with cooperating institutions. Moreover, this year the agreement with the Canadian Fanshawe Institute (College) was renewed.
Closer to licensing
In the face of the process of strengthening educational quality, the Minister of Education, Morgan Quero Gaime, stated that, together with the Minister of Defense, Walter Astudillo Chavez, they are working on the licensing of the Public Technological Higher Education Institute of the Armed Forces.
In his speech at CADE Education, he stressed the commitment to move forward with this process to contribute to the development of this and other technological educational entities.
