The improvement of the education system in the different education levels and the improvement of the teaching staff in order to strengthen the educational work are again topics for discussion during the preparatory meeting for the new school year, which begins in Guantanamo on May 24 until the 26th.

The more than 6 thousand students who will finish the ninth grade in Guantanamo will continue their studies in the pre-university and technical professional levels, and for the latter, new offers are available.

Students can access the specialties of Dance Education, Theater Vision, Teachers of Visual Arts and Musical Education for basic and primary school education, study options with a period of four years in the two pedagogical schools located in the municipalities of Baracoa and Guantanamo.

To discuss issues close to their reality and action, more than 5 thousand four hundred students of the University of Medical Sciences (UCM), Guantanamo, from Monday until next Wednesday will participate in the ninth congress of the University Student Federation at the center, prior to the ninth edition of the event that will bring together delegates from all over the country.

More than 160 deaf blind, low vision and strabismic children of the 14 de Junio Provincial School in this city suffer the limitations of the blockade imposed to Cuba 56 ago by the United States government, preventing the purchase of means and indispensable materials to guarantee the students´ adequate learning.

More than two thousand 12th grade students in Guantanamo showed up this May 3 for the entrance exams to Higher Education, which began with the subject of Mathematics, Spanish on May 8 and History of Cuba on the 11th.