Cuban Higher Education Reaches Over 100 Countries

Havana, Aug 13. – Cuba´s Higher Education Ministry (MES) will strengthen the international academic collaboration in the 2011-2012 school year, which was extended to one-hundred nations during the last academic year, reported the Cuban News Agency.

Higher Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a recent meeting with directors of the sector that the scientific exchange with the member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America, Angola, and China will continue being a priority.

The Master Collaboration Plan of this sector establishes among its priorities the integration with Latin America and the promotion of new relations of solidarity towards the Caribbean Island, said Diaz-Canel, who is also a member of Cuba´s Communist Party (PCC) political bureau.

He said that guiding document establishes collaboration as a priority of all the higher education centers of the country, according to the PCC and Government policy, as in line with the regulations established by the ministries of Foreign Relations, Foreign Trade and Investment.

In the school year that concluded in July, the best indicators of exchange were achieved with Venezuela in the last five-year period, involving 1,209 professors from both nations, said the MES Report for the 2010-2011 school year.

During that period, the number of Cuban teachers also increased to 271 in Angola.(Prensa Latina)