ETEC Lauro Gomes

ETEC Lauro Gomes, formerly known as ETE Lauro Gomes, ETI Lauro Gomes and Escola Técnica Industrial de São Bernardo do Campo is an educational facility located in São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil. It offers secondary education and vocational education classes. It is named after Lauro Gomes de Almeida, mayor for São Bernardo do Campo between 1952 and 1954 and 1960 to 1963.[3] ETEC Lauro Gomes is adjoined to São Paulo Technical School System, conducted by CEETEPS (Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza), an independent government body designed to govern technical schools and faculties in São Paulo.[4]

ETEC Lauro Gomes
Main entrance to ETEC Lauro Gomes photographed in March 2014. Note the old abbreviation ETE is still shown.
Address
400 Pereira Barreto Avenue

São Bernardo do Campo
,
São Paulo
09751-000

Brazil
Coordinates23.69°S 46.54°W / -23.69; -46.54
Information
School typeState school, Vocational school, Secondary school
EstablishedOctober 12, 1964 (1964-10-12)[1]
AuthorityCEETEPS (Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza)
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)  
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History

São Bernardo do Campo, a municipality neighboring São Paulo, started to experience a fast growth of the manufacturing sector after the inauguration of Via Anchieta, a road linking São Paulo to Santos crossing the town. In the 1950s, the traditional furniture making industry began to share space with other activities, such as pharmaceutical, home appliances and specially automotive. In 1958, Willys-Overland, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen already had plants in the city,[5] thus demanding skilled workers.

In 1956 the Ministry of Education and Culture - MEC granted a ₢$ 20 million appropriation for the installment of the school,[6] and in 1957 the state decree no. 3734 was established by Governor Jânio Quadros to enforce the partnership among the São Paulo Government, the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture and the São Bernardo do Campo Government to establish the facility.[7] The construction has been started in 1958 at a 170,000 square metres (1,800,000 sq ft) site.[8] In 1964 a council was set to manage a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the former Federal Republic of Germany government to allow the latter to provide equipment, techniques and teachers to improve the teaching level in the school. Such agreement would allow the insertion of German educators for five years into the facility to be gradually substituted by their Brazilian counterparts.[9] However, in 1967, the agreement was not fully operational as the school still was in construction, with a 60% completion rate and offering the construction of machines and engines as its only course, although the Industrial Engineering Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (now known as Centro Universitário da FEI) already was using part of the facilities.[1] In the year before, the school has been named Lauro Gomes [10] after the former city mayor died in 1964.[3]

In the 1970s other programs have been started, such as electronics, electrotechnics, designing of tools and machining fixtures, and industrial laboratory technician.[10] The Electronic data processing course has been established in 1985.[10]

Adjoining the State Technical School Center

In 1980, state decree no. 16309 ordered the school to join Centro Paula Souza, effective January 1, 1981, thus being one of the state-managed technical schools in São Paulo. The law has been enacted by Governor Paulo Maluf.[11]

The Reform

The vocational program and the high school programs were fused into a single lesson plan, the latter frequently adapted to match the skills needed in the first one. However the national technical education reform of 1997 deterred, in practice, the continuation of such scheme, stating only 25% of the full educational schedule could be allocated for vocational lessons.[12] Although such resolution has been superseded in 2004, the liaisons between the vocational and the high school classes were reinstalled as an option, thus allowing the continuation of separate courses offering.[13]

Habilitations Offered

As of 2014, along with the high school classes, the following vocational habilitations are available:[2]

Admission

Admission to the school involves an exam called vestibulinho (Portuguese diminutive form of vestibular, the most dominant admission test employed for those seeking to ingress in a college in Brazil). It is a multiple choice test combined with a written composition.[14]

References
  1. "Escola do ABC recebe aparelhamento alemão" [ABC (region) school receives German apparatuses]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). October 13, 1967. p. 13. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  2. "ETEC Lauro Gomes overview on São Paulo State Government website" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  3. "Lauro Gomes de Almeida". City Hall of São Bernardo do Campo website (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  4. "Centro Paula Souza - Quem Somos" [Centro Paula Souza - Who we are] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  5. "S. Bernardo do Campo após 405 anos de existência" [São Bernardo do Campo after 405 years of life]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). August 20, 1968. p. 14. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  6. "Construção de Escola Técnica em São Bernardo" [Construction of a Technical School in São Bernardo]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). July 7, 1956. p. 6. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  7. "Decree 3734/57 - SP". jusbrasil.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  8. "Construção de escolas em quatro cidades paulistas" [Building of schools in four São Paulo cities]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). July 29, 1958. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  9. "Bonn dará técnicos e material à Escola de S. Bernardo do Campo" [Bonn will provide technicians and material to São Bernardo do Campo School]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). June 26, 1964. p. 10. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  10. "Histórico da Escola" [School history]. ETELG website (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  11. "Decreto 16309/80" [State decree 16309/80]. jusbrasil.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  12. "Decreto 2208/97" [Federal Decree no. 2208/97]. Brazilian Presidency's Website (in Portuguese). April 17, 1997. Retrieved March 7, 2014. Article 5: The vocational education will have its own coursework, independent from the high school plan, to be offered concomitantly or sequentially to it; Sole paragraph: The vocational classes may be taught in the diversified portion of high school classes, limited to 25% of the full minimum schedule (...).
  13. "Decreto 5154/04" [Federal Decree no. 5154/04]. Brazilian Presidency's Website (in Portuguese). July 23, 2004. Retrieved March 7, 2014. Article 4, § 1: The articulation between the high school level vocational classes and the high school common classes will be given through: I - integrated (...), being such course planned to conduce the learner to achieve his technical habilitation, in the same learning institution, with a single admittance; II - concomitantly, (...), when the completeness between the vocational and high school courses assumes distinct admittances for each segment
  14. "Vestibulinho do Centro Paula Souza" [Centro Paula Souza's Vestibulinho webpage] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
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