Riga State Technical School (RSTS) has been granted the status “A competence centre of vocational education” as an educational establishment which has ascertained qualitative work for a long time. RSTS executes programs of secondary vocational education which give a possibility to acquire the third level of vocational education and additionally performs such functions as a regional or branch methodical centre, teacher further education centre and evaluation of professional competence acquired outside the formal education. RSTS is one of the biggest vocational education establishments both in the Baltic and in the Eastern Europe, so the international cooperation is being developed making the vocational education in Latvia competitive at European level.