The National Higher Institute of the Technician Professorate (Castilian: Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico (INSPT-UTN)) is an accredited higher education institution of the Argentina Republic, dependent of the National Technological University.
The institute, with main venue in the Triunvirato 3174 avenue, City of Buenos Aires, has the objectives of «form higher technicians, teachers and instructors in the diverse technological specialties that exist nowadays in the country», «assure the general, scientific and technical-teaching formation of the higher degree, according with the objectives of the level of each career» and organize the orientation, specialization, improvement, and constant update of their graduates.
[3] Fewer days after, on November 26, 1959, the "National Institute of the Technical Professorate" was created (Decree N° 15.958) for the teaching formation of the professionals required by the CONET schools.
[3] The Institute had a fast initial development and in 1975 it had 1570 student[5] Since its creation to 1990, the Institute «devoted exclusively to prepare the faculty with the technical schools requirements through formation careers, qualification courses and technical improvement and assistance»,[6] mainly given in the country but eventually taking the direction and supervision of the Multinational Project of Technical Education and Professional Formation of the Organization of American States (1972).
[6] On September 27, 1995, the institute was transferred to the National Technological University governing through an agreement between the Minister engineer Jorge Alberto Rodríguez in representation of the national executive power, and the Dean Héctor Carlos Brotto in representation of the university, arguing that the decision with «the needs to bind academically and administratively two institutions traditional separated and... with different histories, but both linked to the tech» maintaining the plans and objectives of the Institution with the additional objective of «functioning as center of permanent education for the teachers of the NTU».