The Ministry of Education (Mined) during its annual working meeting analyzed the fulfillment of the objectives and deficiencies of the sector. In the previous period and called for strengthening training and improvement in 2025.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic. And Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic.
Chaired this meeting in which Naima Trujillo Barreto, Minister of Education. Stressed that the projections for 2025 are aimed at improving educational and political-ideological work. And to the comprehensive attention of teachers to contribute to their permanence and specialization.
He said that progress will be made in the implementation of the III Improvement of the National Education System. As the main platform to guarantee educational quality and the process of digital transformation and communication.
Also as pillars of government management, considering the activity of science and innovation as the main mobilizing tool for development.
This year’s goals focus on strengthening the training, improvement and attention of directors and teachers. And on raising the quality of the sector to contribute to the comprehensive training of students, the minister noted.
Trujillo Barreto pointed out that the need to promote digital transformation and institutional communication will be taken into account. Moreover as well as to increase the training of the qualified workforce in correspondence with the current demands and perspectives of each territory. To guarantee the assurance of technological, material and financial resources.
By the end of 2024, 84.4% coverage was achieved, without the use of alternatives. With a need for 26,871 teachers. In pedagogical schools and vocational pre-university institutes of Exact Sciences. Only 76% and 79% respectively are reached.
The most complex situation is manifested in the Basic Sciences and in the educational levels of Basic Secondary and Pre-University. The most affected provinces are: Havana, Matanzas, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila and Holguin.
Díaz-Canel Bermúdez insisted on distinguishing professional competencies and challenges in order to carry out a training plan. According to the new challenges of improvement, in addition to recognizing the role. At the local level, of teachers as tutors of each teaching.
During the balance, it was revealed that in 2024 the generalization of the circular conception and the introduction of new learning materials. Were reinforced, which has favored the methodological preparation of teachers and the implementation of new ways of working as analysis in the educational projects of groups and institutions and networking.
The integrated work between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education. The follow-up of the Basic Sciences strategy and the identification with greater precision of the methodological elements for teaching from early childhood were favorable.
The system of attention to high-performance students benefited the results in the international competitive cycle. Obtaining 38 medals and 18 honorable mentions. In different events, seven more than the previous year. Which places Cuba in a notorious place at the regional level, it was known at the meeting.
Marrero Cruz, for his part, explained that 2024 was a year of exceptional circumstances with the increase in the United States blockade. The increase in the media war and the economic tensions that have impacted the educational system. So it has had to reinvent itself to resist, create and develop its revolutionary mission.
Moreover he pointed out the importance of facing and advancing in the introduction of new materials for improvement. Working on the creation of scientific-methodological work networks to achieve the categorization of more teachers in doctorates and master’s degrees. And the reorganization of the school network taking into account the demographic decrease.
The head of government insisted on strongly implementing the use of technology as a source of teaching. Promoting the participation of students in tasks of social impact such as socialization with different institutions. And stimulating the establishment of children’s houses.
With information from Cuban News Agency
Translated by Radio Angulo
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