The General Directorate of Technological Studies

The General Directorate of Technological Studies

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

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  The  Higher Institutes of Technological Studies were created  in 1992 while  The General Directorate of Technological Studies was  founded in  2001. It consists of the following three departments:

- Administration of  Higher Institutes of  Technological Studies- Administration of  Engineering Studies- Administration of Partnership with The Environment and Professional Integration 

Presentation of The General Directorate of Technological Studies

Administration of Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

Sub-Directorate of  training

Service of competitions to enter The  Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

Service of Pedagogical Programs

Sub- Directorate of Planning and equipment

Technical studies and planning service

Service of  equipment, fixtures and maintenance

Sub-Directorate of technologists

Technologists recruitment service

Service of  Monitoring of technologists’ professional careers

Sub-Directorate for Technological Studies

Sub-Directorate of Training

Service of Pedagogical programs

Service of Monitoring and Evaluation

Sub-Directorate  of  competitions  to  engineers training

Service of Financial Management

Service of Registration

Administration of Partnership with The Environment and Professional integration

Sub-Directorate of professional integration

Service of Incubators enterprises

Service of  projects development ad monitoring

Sub-Directorate of the Partnership with the environment

Service of Continuous training

Relationship with the environment

Administration of Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

The tasks being carried out are as follows:

Organizing purchases to supply Institutes with the  necessary scientific equipment 

Pedagogical supervision within the Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

organizing recruitment competitions  related to  the various technologists categories

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Their task is to ensure the most part of   the trainig and to supervise internships and   applied activities as well as to oversee  applied research programs and continuous training.

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Contributing to the training sessions in different disciplines (Teachers, researchers, teachers of  secondary education ...)

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30% of instruction hours are performed  by experts and professionals

Professionals

The ratio of coaching in the Higher institutes of Technological Studies has been in the range of   one professor for every 12 students

Teachers Body in Higher Institutes

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Number   Teachers category Number   Teachers category

234 Attachés of secondary education 400 Assistant 

Technologists

2 University teacher 1340 Technologists

7 Lecturer 106 Technologists as Lecturers

75 Assistant professor 3 Associate Professor

21 Assistant  Teacher of higher education

Distribution of Teachers within the network of Higher Institutes of Technological studies from february 2012

Development and Distribution of the Framework of Teachers in 2012:

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2236 2418 2454 2883

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Technologists

Researchers secondary education teachers 

Distribution of Technologists

•1340 Technologists•648 Assistant Technologist•106Lecturer

Data related to The Competition to recruit Technologists

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L.M.D System within the Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

- Mechanical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Methods Engineering

- Electrical-Engineering

- Textile Engineering

Field of sciences and technology

SciencesAnd technologiesof Information and communication

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This system consists of  two main  areas:

Technologies ofinformation

Business management

Field of Economic Sciences and Management

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26 co-constructed Applied Licenses are being  ensured in some institutes 

Marketing

L.M.D System within The Higher Institutes of Technological Studies

Sub-Department of Planning and Equipment:

This department is concerned with the second part  of the budget of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research aimed for  Higher Institutes of Technological Studies.A - Equipment is divided into :-Furniture- audio and visual media Equipment-Pedagogical  and scientific equipment

B-  Procedures:. collecting of  Institutes needs..Determining the annual   budget for each  Institute within the Ministry's budget..Completing and sorting out  of tenders and then assigning  of  transactions and follow-up ; suppliers payment  and follow-up of  equipment work during the warranty period and then file the final seal.

Source of Funding I External funding1 - World Bank for Reconstruction and Development (5.2 billion)2 - Islamic Development Bank (4 million U.S. dollars)3 - The European Bank for Development (600 million special Bizerte)4 - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (about one billion)5 - Kuwaiti Development Bank (processing Medenine Institute - Tataouine –one million and 250 thousand dinars).II - Financing the Public Treasury of TunisiaAcquisitions in the process of achievement (4.5 billion)Acquisitions programmed the remaining budget for 2011 and 2012: 14 billion

Administration of  Engineering Studies

Its main tasks are :

-The pedagogical supervision and Rehabilitation of Engineering training institutions.

-organising the competitions to enter the engineering training stages 

Bachelor Degree

Engineering Training Stage

Prparatory Cycle of Engineering Studies

Integrated Prparatory Cycle

(INSAT et ISSATSousse)

High-ranking technicians training stage

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Access routes to The Engineering Trainig Institutions in Tunisia

27 schools are currently ensuring stages of engineering training classified according to the nature of training:

•18 Enginneering schools comprising:

.7 Agricultural engineering schools.11 Non-Agricultural schools

.Faculty of Sciences Tunis

.7 Higher Institutes are eligible to host training for engineers

•.National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology

21 institutions provide preparatory stages including 2 providing integrated preparatory stages

InstitutionNumber of students The total

numberFirst year Second

year Third year

The non-agricultural engineering institutions (12) 4139 3532 3252 10923

The Agricultural engineering

institutions (7) 681 731 676 2088

Higher Institutes of Applied Sciences and Technology (7)

(engineers training stage)

647 609 419 1675

The National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology 674 837 326 1837

Overall data 6141 5709 4673 16523

Number of Students Enrolled in The Engineering Schools

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Admitted students to the national competitions

The specificadmitted competition: number of students to the first and second year of engineers training

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Number of admitted Associate Professors in Mathematical Sciences

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Number of Associate Professors in Physics

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Number of Students admitted to the French Textile Engineering Schools

Year 2011Number of students admitted to th French

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Administration of Partnership with the Environment and Professional Integration :

The tasks are as follows:- Follow-up of incubators activity and management of the initiative programs for individual entreprise

- Follow the employability of  different operational licenses and certificates of Engineers

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