Higher education adapts to a new academic year amid reality
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Cuban higher education resumes its activities with the 2026-2027 academic year amid a national scenario marked by the worsening fuel supply shortage, caused by the sustained aggressive policy of the United States government against the Cuban people. Such actions, which provoke a recrudescence of the energy, financial, and economic blockade, will nevertheless not prevent the start of the academic year on September 1 at all universities and institutions across the country, including those belonging to other training agencies, reported the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) in a statement released today.
In the face of this reality, the Higher Education system has restructured its operations based on decentralization and a territorial approach, so that teaching activities will be carried out essentially with the academic organization applied in the previous semester, the source added. In the specific case of universities subordinate to the MES, the document explains, enrollment processes for new students, as well as readmission and matriculation confirmation for continuing students, will be organized from the territories where the young people reside.
Students in national or regional programs may formalize their procedures at the university or at the Municipal University Centers (CUM) and Municipal University Branches (FUM) of their province or municipality, either in person or online. Likewise, the training process will be developed in blended and distance-learning modalities, alternating, whenever possible, some periods of in-person instruction, fundamentally for daytime-course students; while in-person lectures will be held at each university's main campus, at the CUM, FUM, and/or productive or service entities in each locality.
Referring to the course by encounters (CPE), the MES explains that, for both higher technician programs and university degree programs, in-person meetings will be resumed at least once a month to guide and evaluate learning tasks; likewise, the distance-learning course (CaD) will maintain its usual conception. As part of their comprehensive training process, students will actively participate in socioeconomic tasks in their municipalities and communities, with special emphasis on the Community Youth Network.
The MES reiterates to families its full confidence that pedagogical and organizational measures have been adopted so that young people progress and graduate successfully, the statement added, urging the entire university community to stay informed through official channels, websites, and social media profiles of their respective universities and of the CUM and FUM in their territory, where local organizational details will be published. With the conviction that the preparation of professionals is the guarantee of the country's future, Higher Education reaffirms its commitment to the Revolution and to the comprehensive education that Cuba needs, the Ministry of Higher Education's note concludes. (Source: ACN)
