Göteborg Technical College (GTC) and Göteborg Region Technical School (GTG) are the result of an extensive partnership between business (AB Volvo and Volvo Cars) and the City of Göteborg. From the outset, the main objectives were to secure high-quality vocational education in the Göteborg region for the future and be a resource to the business community with regard to employee development. Our training programmes are designed in partnership with our owner companies to meet their future skills requirements.
Operations began in 1998. We provide secondary education (Göteborgsregionens Tekniska Gymnasium/Göteborg Region Technical School, GTG), AVET (Advanced Vocational Education and Training) and PST courses (Professional Skills Training). Adult education (AVET and PST) is provided by the parent company, Göteborgs Tekniska College AB, and the secondary school by the wholly owned subsidiary Göteborgsregionens Tekniska Gymnasium AB.
Education and training are provided at modern learning centres at Volvo Torslanda and the Lindholmen Science Park, providing proximity to the university, other secondary schools and high-tech manufacturing industry.
GTC is owned by the City of Göteborg (49%), AB Volvo and Volvo Cars (25.5% each).
THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE FOR YOUR COMPANY
Göteborg Technical College provides efficient training for industrial technology companies in the following skills areas: Automation, Electrical Safety, Production Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Leadership and Communication.
Our educational philosophy is based on broad foundation courses leading to advanced, specialised, and in certain cases certification courses. Our consistent approach is to ensure that students are given ample opportunities for hands-on application during the course to enable them to swiftly put their knowledge into practical action in the workplace. In this way, our students are given training and education that rapidly develop your business.
As your education partner, GTC provides standardised courses and courses customised to your specific needs. We begin by analysing your operations together with you and your department. On that basis, we craft the optimal solution and plan – from content to execution. This approach ensures that always provide you and your company with high-quality, cost-effective skills.
Our customers include Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Buses, , Powertrain, SKF, Scania, Pininfarina, XDIN and Semcon Caran.
THE RIGHT SKILLS LEAD TO JOBS
The primary objectives of Advanced Vocational Education and Training (AVET) is to provide the right skills in working life and ensure that AVET students become sought-after commodities in the labour market who get qualified jobs in their fields. AVET is provide in a partnership involving the state, employers and the education provider. Employers are involved in planning courses, are included in the management team for all courses, and provide LIA places. One third of all AVET courses is devoted to workplace training (LIA: Lärande i Arbete). More information about AVET is available online:
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GTC offers three AVET courses:
Leadership in Industry 40/60 AVET credits
The course is designed to advance students’ development as a leader and human being and strengthen their skills at making effective use of resources in the team and the organisation as a whole. The course will also improve technical knowledge about how they as leaders can develop and maintain efficient production processes.
Production Development 60/80 AVET credits
The course provides knowledge about Lean Production and various methods for achieving it. Students will gain understanding of production, economics, quality, work organisation and leadership, as well as experience working in projects form.
Operation and Maintenance Development 60 AVET credits
The course provides students with the practical and theoretical knowledge they need to be involved in creating efficient production processes. Emphasis is on development and efficiency in relation to operational reliability, economics, quality and capacity.
GTG – a route to jobs in the future!
GTG offers a special technical programme that includes industrial, general and social sciences, supplemented by workplace training with leading industrial companies. Our students will obtain a technical education of unusual breadth and depth corresponding to the high standards of today’s labour market, industry and higher education institutions.
Lifelong learning
A GTG education provides a solid foundation for the lifelong learning our modern society demands. Our students are thoroughly prepared for further studies at university/college and for a professional career.
Extensive workplace training
One of the fundamental principles at GTG is to alternate theory in the classroom with learning in the workplace. More than 20% of course hours are spent in workplace training, where students are able to immediately apply theoretical knowledge in a workplace environment, with the support of a supervisor. Students are given the opportunity to try various technical occupations and discover what will be required of them.
Courses are provided in two different tracks: Academic and Operational. GTG training courses give students technical and humanistic foundations to stand on, including skills in rhetoric and presentation as routes to further development.
Academic Track – 3,600 credits
This track is designed for people who enjoy working with problem solving with special focus on engineering, and whose primary aim is to pursue higher education at a university/college. During the second year, students choose one of three specialisations: Technical Development and Entrepreneurship, Telematics, or Mechatronics.
Operational Track – 3,100 credits
The operational track is a specialist training course for people interested in developing tomorrow’s technology in industrial manufacturing processes. During the second year, students choose a specialisation, either Telematics or Mechatronics.
Mechatronics is technically oriented. Students learn nearly all aspects of advanced automation technology and production engineering.
Telematics includes the subject areas electronics, computer technology and telecommunications.
Technical Development and Entrepreneurship focuses on business administration, project management and marketing.