HAVANA, Cuba, May 18 (acn) The Cuban Ministry of Education (MINED) has
announced that it will make changes to the curriculum and internship
periods in technical and professional institutions (ETP).
Cuban News Agency
In statements published in the Trabajadores weekly newspaper, Alexander
Manso, ETP director, said that technical specialities will now take
three years and four months, including the internship period.
"We are going to separate the classes of pre-university graduates from
those of technical specialties," said Manso. He added that many students
are currently enrolling in technical schools to obtain bachelor degrees
only to go on to apply for university, and in many cases in fields
completely different to what they had previously studied.
Manso highlighted that the ETP's main objective is to train a qualified
labor force and to guarantee work to students immediately after graduating.
He said the ministry is working on a study plan that includes reducing
curriculum to only the relevant subjects in each specialty. As an
example, he said that the current curriculum for Accounting includes
Physics and Chemistry, something that would be left out of future ones.
Other changes include opening classrooms annexed to work places to give
students the possibility of directly interacting with the technology
they would be using after graduating.
Cuba To Introduce Changes in Technical Education (19 May 2009)
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