University 2010 Congress in Cuba
Cuba: More than 3,000 delegates from 60 countries, including 20
Ministers attended on Monday at the 7th edition of the University 2010
Congress at Havana’s International Conference Centre.
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University
congress
* Delegates from 60
countries attend congress
* Congress will last until
February 12 |
About 14 pre-congress courses, included one on the universalization
of higher education in Cuba which is close to graduate its first million
students since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, have taken place
before the official opening.
Among participants in the forum that will last until February 12,
there are also 215 university deans from throughout the world, 45
presidents of Deans Associations and representatives from international
organizations.
The presentation of 2,123 papers, 1,563 of them from abroad, is also
included in this 7th event.
Parallel to this congress 13 workshops were scheduled with extensive
diversity of criteria about the role of university in society.
Quality of education and its impact in post-graduate teaching are
among issues to be debated by participants, as well as the Seventh
Assembly of the Ibero-American Network for Quality Accreditation of
Higher Education.
Also on the list of activities there is a meeting of professionals
graduated in Cuba who will exchange their experiences, and visits to
Cuban institutions like the Computer Sciences and Medical Sciences
universities, both in Havana.
Havana, Prensa Latina
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