Consolidating the process of academic training of students in fewer weeks, based on the quality of teaching and the presence of students in classes, is one of the main challenges of the University of Las Tunas (ULT in Spanish) in the current academic year, which began on January 14 and will end on September 27.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Its rector, Yoenia Virgen Barbán Sarduy, Doctor of Science and member of the Cuban Parliament, stressed that all the conditions are in place to achieve such a high goal, even though time is shortening during the teaching period, which implies a more cohesive and professional work to teach the main contents of the different subjects.

The more than 1,400 professors with a high academic level that ULT counts with constitute the basic cell to promote the objectives in front of the more than 9,000 students enrolled in the modalities of daytime, meeting, distance, and short cycle courses.

The institution promotes 83 research projects that respond to the main lines of development of the province, 19 postgraduate programs (the majority of excellence), 16 master's degrees, and one doctorate; it strengthens alliances with other houses of higher learning and relations with the business sector, for which it has designed a doctorate program in Economic Sciences.

In the current year, it is also working to consolidate research in the three fundamental sectors of Tunisia: food production, the sugar industry, and the electro-energy sector, which is vital to the progress of the territory.

During the last academic year, the center had 15 new doctors in Legal, Economic, and Educational Sciences, and 63 masters; it showed a high number of publications in high-impact journals and was consolidated in the world ranking of universities, by the citations of articles of about 100 researchers, positioned in Google academic, a search engine focused and specialized in content and scientific-academic bibliography.