A university committed to its people and its time
"We propose a model of university scientific, technological, humanistic, innovative, committed to his people and his time, and internationalist solidarity," said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Minister of Higher Education, opened the day before leaving the seventh edition Universidad 2010 International Congress.
The event brings together in this city about two thousand 400 delegates and guests from 60 countries and a number of industry executives, including ministers, deputy ministers, chancellors and presidents of associations and regional organizations.
Before a vast and varied audience at the Karl Marx Theater, Díaz-Canel delivered conference entitled The university faced the challenge of building a socialist society in Cuba, which addressed the momentum within higher education and its institutions, both globally and in this small Caribbean nation.
said the university, as an element of critical consciousness of society, is called to play a key role in building this new world possible, not only a progressive intellectuals and committed to his people to carry out projects development, but also educates, and attitudes forged.
Most importantly, he added, not only the amount of knowledge that exit the university, but how prepared you are to confront and transform the world in which we live.
stressed that the university also consolidates principles such as peace, which means learning to live together, respect for cultural diversity and make space for dialogue to allow the identification of harmonic solutions.
fundamental precept HIGHER EDUCATION IN CUBA
During these five decades of revolution, the politics of higher education in this nation has been governed by a set of core ideas, and some of them are educational theses countries in the region and other continents.
In this regard, The Minister explained that Cuba defends and develops a universalized higher education, which means that the process of social appropriation of knowledge requires universal access to education.
This, he pointed out has to go hand in hand for greater quality assurance and, as part of this, continued attention to enable the support necessary and appropriate to the student.
Diaz-Canel noted that the agendas of training, research and university extension must be designed in a direct link to the social needs of national and local development.
Another fundamental precepts is referred to cooperation and international practice of international solidarity in the sector, which should be in the deployment of actions to share progress and projects and to facilitate the search for common solutions to strengthen the circulation of knowledge.
said that the greatest expression of integration is the project of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), in which the greatest impact has been implemented in countries in the region of the literacy method I can, through which it has eradicated illiteracy in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and will soon be achieved in Ecuador. In
another point in his speech the minister criticized the cruel imperialist blockade against Cuba, which despite the modest achievements are displayed in a university system "does not stop, provides solutions to the country, research, publish and share their knowledge and skills with millions of citizens from dozens of countries through their doctors, teachers, coaches, technicians and students on scholarships in Cuba. "
recalled that five young Cuban anti-terrorist fighters are imprisoned unjustly in American jails, for the sole crime of avoiding death and pain of their compatriots.
GUERRERO ANTONIO MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE FIVE
A moment of particular importance in this opening ceremony it was the intervention of the U.S. attorney Cindy O 'Hara, a tireless fighter for the freedom of these five compatriots, who read a message sent by Antonio Guerrero on behalf of their brothers in the struggle.
"I got you," reflects the short-lines from five prisons of the empire our greeting with the certainty that Congress will be successful. " Cindy read
also a poem entitled Antonio Men, and then handed him a box to the Minister Díaz Canel with the text.
They also speak the Deputy Minister of Education of China, Wang Liying, ministers Education of Spain and Venezuela, and Hector Navarro Ángel Gabilondo, respectively, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federal Republic, Andrei Fursenko, Beu and Mr. Khalid Muhammad, Saudi Arabia.
for Cuba presided over the ceremony Ramiro Valdes, vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, Jose Ramon Fernandez, vice president of the Council of Ministers, among other leaders of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, as well as Ministries of Education and Higher Education.
A PREVIEW OF THE WEEK
The work agenda will be discussed University 2010 about two thousand 400 papers, which were organized in 13 workshops with the most diverse topics.
This Tuesday is scheduled early in the conference by the Minister of Education, Dr. Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, and also hosting a panel titled "The globalization of higher education: Cuban experience.
During the days of Ministers Jose Ramon Balaguer, Abel Prieto and José Barrueco Millar, Public Health, Culture and Science, Technology and Environment, respectively, have special interventions.
meetings will develop guidelines and other panels will address topics such as the UNESCO and educational work in Latin America and the Caribbean, international agencies and higher education internationalization, university cooperation and the challenges of the global economic situation and the formation of values \u200b\u200bin higher education, among others.
Similarly, among the symposia to be held is that of University Programs in Aging. Integration time, which will be chaired by Professor Teresa Orosa, president of the Chair of the Elderly at the University of Havana.
source: cubahora
