The Federal Centers for Technological Education ( pt, Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica, shortened CEFET) are

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ian educational institutes which are directly linked to the

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. They are focused on

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technical high school Technical may refer to: * Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle * Technical analysis, a discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data * Technical drawing, showing how something is co ...

and

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s linked to

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. Many of them offer academic degrees, just like universities. After December 28, 2008, most of them were transformed into

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, the exceptions being the ones in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, which remained as CEFETs and the one in the state of Paraná, which became the

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Technical universities and colleges in Brazil

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