Holguin Delegation Attends Higher Education Congress
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A A Holguín delegation composed of 47 members is participating in the 11th International Congress Universidad 2018, taking place in Havana from February 12 to 16. The delegation is participating in workshops to debate on issues related to University, Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development.
The agenda also includes two forums and symposiums to debate on issues like Didactics in Basic Sciences, Engineering and Architecture and education of the arts and higher education.
"University and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Centennial of the Cordoba Reform”, is the slogan for the event, the most important of Higher Education in Cuba with the participation of more than 2 thousand foreigners and nationals academics, researchers and directives.
According to DrC. Rafael Lorenzo Martín, Methodologist of the Directorate of Science and Technology of the University of Holguin, this House of High Studies will present 36 papers on applied research in the sciences of education, management of university processes, basic sciences and computerization, in 13 of the 19 workshops that make up the great event. Two of its prestigious visiting professors will also attend to give specialized conferences.
For this edition, the University of Holguín will once again have a stand in the exhibition area, led by the group of specialists from the Institutional Communication Department.
"We hope it will be a productive space and that new strategic alliances can be established at such difficult times for countries with not profitable economies, which develop and exchange from an integral presence and a holistic view of the Sciences," said Rafael Lorenzo.
The Congress, in its 20 years of celebration, is ratified as the space par excellence and an opportunity to visualize the scientific work of the University and its portfolio of services in order to make agreements, as well as academic and scientific exchanges.
Education to Contribute to Alternative Models
Cuba’s Higher Education Minister Jose Ramon Saborido Loidi said on Monday in Havana that to achieve a model of alternative, sustainable and inclusive development, it is important to mobilize human, scientific and technological potential and human values promoted by higher education.
During the inaugural ceremony of the 11th International Congress of Higher Education, Universidad 2018 held at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Saborido Loidi offered a conference “The university and Agenda 2030 of sustainable development in the Centennial of the Cordoba Reform. Vision from Cuba.”
Cuba’s First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel and the General Secretary of the Workers Confederation and other figures participated in the opening event.
Saborido highlighted that university education in the region has been able to reconcile advanced common positions and defend them with relative success, but there are still challenges, among them, achieving higher education as a public and social reality and a human and universal right.
He mentioned that the higher educational centers must be more integrated into societies, productive, territorial and community sectors.
He urged in extending the formation of more competent professionals; have major and better use of the information and communication technologies to improve education in all its spheres.
Regarding Cuba, Saborido pointed out that the country has a mature system of evaluation and accreditation of the programs and institutions whose effectiveness depends on that today there is close to 70 percent of the pre-grade degrees and the masters and PhD programs are certified.
The Executive Secretary of the Congress, Omar Herrera Martinez, said during the activity that the event has the participation of over 2 thousand foreign representatives, several guests and 900 Cuban delegates.
He emphasized that the international representatives come from some 60 countries among them with the most delegates are Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Angola, Colombia, United States, Argentina, Peru, Spain, Germany and France. / With information from ACN
