This work seeks to present some of the factors that have accounted for the present-day success of Basque vocational training. To understand what occurred in the course of history to shape the vocational training developed in Euskadi, we have to go back from the 19th c-, when the first Schools of Arts and Trades were founded, to the Francoist period, with the involvement of different political, social, economic and other agents. And of course, to ...