Cuba Evaluates Community-based Universities
Havana, Jan 4. - The achievements of the Cuban program to make university education available at the community level will be analyzed at the Fifth International Congress on Higher Education, University 2006, reported AIN news agency on Tuesday.
The event, scheduled for February 13-17 in Havana, has as its main objective to examine strategies to guarantee a lifetime of educational opportunities for a majority of the world’s population, something already a reality in Cuba.
The creation of municipal university centers, which concluded in the year 2005, is considered one of the most important educational reforms implemented last year in Cuba.
More than 2,000 university extension centers were set up in all the 169 municipalities on the island. The effort is considered a way of increasing social justice for Cubans by expanding the educational possibilities for all young people.
University 2006 will examine possible transformations in higher education systems that would give those institutions a key role in developing actions to attain sustainable development in different countries.
In addition, the congress seeks to facilitate the exchange of experiences and research results in different countries on the advanced training of educational experts and university professors.
Establishing forms of international cooperation aimed at increasing the quality of education in the world is another goal of the forum.
Cuba has been the host of the International Congress on Higher Education, held every two years since 1998.
Some 2,000 foreign delegates have already confirmed their participation at the Fifth International Congress on Higher Education, University 2006, among them, higher education ministers and rectors.
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