Las Tunas is ready to welcome more than 80,000 students in general education for the 2023-2024 school year on the first Monday of September; a challenging period in which education will be strengthened as a pillar for the advancement of the nation.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Seminars have been held since last May to instruct the teaching staff on the priorities for the coming period, in which the province will have a deficit of about 700 teachers, for a teaching coverage of 95.3 percent.
Despite this situation, Nílser Piñeda Cruz, Director of Education, said that more than 500 new educators are entering the profession and for some time now, to make up for the shortage of professionals, trainee teachers and specialists in production and services have been recruited.
"This school year is not without its difficulties, we have identified them and we are working to minimize them," said the director; who also stressed that they are finalizing details to guarantee the availability of pens and notebooks, as well as school uniforms.
Regarding the latter, Universal Warehouses has already begun distributing the items to the territories, and before this Sunday, the textile industry should complete its commitment with the delivery of more than 12,000 garments for the first grades of each school level.
The details are being adjusted for the sale can begin as soon as possible in the municipalities of Manatí and Las Tunas, whose commercial units already have almost all of the clothes.
Concerning other details related to the material basis for study and life, difficulties continue to exist with the printing of school books; of the 52 workbooks of different types and levels, six are guaranteed, in this case, those necessary for early childhood and the first and second grades of primary education.
Likewise, the availability of cement and other materials, said Piñeda Cruz, has affected the planned investments, although the planned maintenance has been carried out.
In a reflection on the importance of education for the country, the member of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in the territory, Manuel René Pérez Gallego, referred to the stimulation of teachers, the links with the family and the community, and the detailed attention to students to form conscious and active citizenship in the face of national and global problems.
In Las Tunas, the only province that has been able to begin the previous educational calendar (2022-2023) on time, the doors of the educational institutions will be opened to their workers from the 30th of this month, with the certainty that "the future of the country depends on education."
