Created in January 10th. 1946, the National Commercial Training Service (SENAC) is a vocational training institution open to society as a whole. The national Commerce Confederation administrates it since its creation by the decrees 8.621 and 8.622. It is a private institution that relies on the financial contributions of commercial and service enterprises.

Goals

The SENAC acts all along the national territory and has taken vocational training to diversified audiences enabling them to act in the labour market.

In this way, the institution that has already trained more than 23 million professionals for the commerce sector and services contributes to the valorisation of the worker and the development of the country.

Its institutional actions are oriented by policies guided by social and economic problems and aimed at fulfilling the institutional goals.

Activities

SENAC seeks to attend the different areas of the commercial sector and services developing its programmes within 7 areas structured around the basic skills required in the different occupations of the sector.

Administration
Communication and Arts
Tourism and Hotel Industry
Health
Fashion and Beauty
Preservation and Maintenance
Informatics

Boletim Técnico do SENAC, v. 32 - n.1, jan/ abr. 2006. A Revista da Educação Profissional

Boletim Técnico do SENAC. v.31, n.3, set./dez. 2005.

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Technical Bulletin of the National Commercial Training Service (SENAC) (Rio de Janeiro), vol. 29, no. 2, May/Aug. 2003, pp. 29-41

1st International Congress of Technology on Education: Social inclusion: the challenge of democratising knowledge. Sistema Fecomércio/Senac/Sesc. 30th September to 3rd October, 2003. Recife, Pernambuco

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- A new pedagogic model at SENAC: polyvalence as a guiding principle p. 41

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Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region Montevideo, 2001.