School Year Achieves Superior Quality in Las Tunas
August 1, 2009, 3:35 pm

By Raul Estrada Zamora
estrada@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas. - Workers and students of the Ministry of Education in Las Tunas province overcame to the damages caused by the powerful hurricanes that battered Cuba less than one year ago. They helped to reconstruct their schools and closed an academic course with a better quality in the teaching learning process.

Nilser Pineda, provincial vice-director of Education in Las Tunas, told Radio Victoria that in the recently concluded teching period superior results were obtained in indicators like the attendance to classes, the students' retention, and the quality of the graduates.

The Teaching System in Las Tunas obtained superior results in the attendance to classes, the students' retention, and quality of the graduates.

According to the directive of the MINED in Las Tunas, the quality of the students that applied for a university career also improved and each one has guaranteed a speciality.

In the case of the Polytechnic Teaching, the territory formed professionals of higher qualiry, while in the Teaching for Adults 98 percent of those graduates at the night school began to work.

In Las Tunas these conquests have bigger relevance because the hurricanes Ike and Paloma affected partial or totally more than half of all the school facilities, which are recovered by 88 percent, thanks among other reasons, to the help of workers and students of those teaching centers.