University of Holguin Implements Short Cycle Program
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The new short-cycle education program will be implemented these days at the University of Holguin, as part of the transformations being carried out in the Cuban Higher Education.
Roberto Pérez, Vice Chancellor of Training at the University said that this modality so far focuses on specialties of medical sciences and education due to the demands of the territory, but that progressively other specialties will be introduced in the program.
The short cycle program is an option created in Cuba to guarantee the continuity of study of high school graduates and the careers offered in this program will only last two years with a connotation superior to that of Middle Technician, Pérez explained.
He added that graduates through this program will soon be able to perform in the profession studied and after being inserted into the work center they will have the option of enrolling in the modality of course by meeting to finish the Degree.
This program has its most immediate antecedent in the plan for the improvement of teachers of the Secondary Education, conceived by the Ministry of Higher Education to reverse the deficit of teachers in the country.
