NEW DESIGN FOR FEDERAL NETWORK OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Since the year of 2003, Lula's Government initiated actions directed to the democratization of technique education offer in the country, through a structuring plan of expansion of Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education. The first phase of the plan embraced the construction of 64 (sixty-four) new Education Units to sum up to the 140 (one hundred forty) that already existed. At the same time, the Ministry of Education started second phase of the Project, for the implantation of more 150 (one hundred fifty) new Schools, totalizing, up to 2010, the goal of 354 (three hundred and fifty-four) institutions. In this context, appears the proposal of establishing 38 (thirty-eight) Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology to integrate, from 2009, these Education Units, as well as constituting the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education. Each Federal Institute is structured with a Rectory and some campuses, with interdependent management between both. Territorially, to the Rectory will comprehend the strategical function of politics definition, supervision and control. To achieve it, needs an administrative structure that congregates, beyond the cabinet, prorectories and systemic performance directorates, being responsibility of these agencies the function of working matrically entailed to the similar units of the campuses. Each Campus, therefore, responsible for the execution of finalistic institutional objectives, needs a hybrid structuring, through the association of functional and matrical departmentalization - to make possible the dialogue and interaction of the academic area departments with the operational units of the others departments of administration areas, of education support, of extension and research. In reality, the situational arrangement of the Federal Institutes is new and characterized as proper of a network structure, to systematically integrate several organizations of teaching through a central nucleus - in national scope, through the Professional and Technological Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Education, and in regional scope, some Campuses through a Rectory.