{"id":206020,"date":"2019-09-15T18:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=206020"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:55:42","slug":"cuban-universities-readjust-teaching-schedules-due-to-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-universities-readjust-teaching-schedules-due-to-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban universities readjust teaching schedules due to energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban universities are “readjusting” their teaching schedules to the <\/span>energy crisis<\/span><\/a> the island is experiencing at the moment and that the authorities affirm is “temporary.”<\/span><\/p>\n

First Deputy Minister of Higher Education Martha del Carmen Mesa\u2015who recently published a text about university teaching staff that has been a <\/span>subject of controversy<\/span><\/a>\u2015assured the Cuban News Agency (ACN)<\/em> that “no university is going to close its doors,” but she specified that they will work “according to the possibilities of each territory” and with the characteristics of the centers of higher studies themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

In general, “it was decided to reduce the face-to-face nature of university processes, prioritizing the undergraduate, and decentralizing the necessary students from the higher education headquarters to their municipalities of residence,” Mesa explained to the ACN<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deputy minister commented that, given the current situation, her ministry gave the university authorities “total freedom” to “design initiatives” and “creatively” apply the necessary “organizational forms of the educational teaching process.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“All universities are increasing the decentralization of academic activities and the offers of Courses by Encounters, Distance Education, Short Cycle Training Programs and University Colleges, taking into account the importance of maintaining life in the university,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00edaz-Canel: \u201cCuba no est\u00e1 paralizada\u201d pese a \u201csituaci\u00f3n energ\u00e9tica\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n