Cuba Trip

Education in Cuba is free and there is a 9-year compulsory education. Cuba has a tripartite education system from elementary, middle and high school there.

Cuba’s education system is among the best in Latin America and both before, and after the revolution [35]. 2001, the Cuban students at the fourth and fifth grade in a test of UNESCO far ahead of other Latin American countries. The enrollment rate is 100 percent, illiteracy goes to zero. After the UNESCO Education for All Development Index, Cuba belongs to the highly developed countries in the world in the field of education with a well-educated population .

In recent years, however, is becoming an increasingly acute shortage of teachers. Many teachers work, despite its good training, as well as numerous doctors and other high-skilled, better in the tourism sector, because only the tip a multiple of a Cuban content. Cuba also gives many teachers as compensation for subsidized oil from Venezuela, to various friendly countries of Latin America in order to build a functioning education system to help. This teacher shortage, the Cuban government with so-called “emergency teachers”, 16 – to 18-year-old school leavers, in crash courses on their tasks and be prepared through tele classes, so lessons via video cassette, to compensate. Furthermore, even retired teachers back into the active teachers are lured .

The school is for boys in the service vormilitärischer training, older students learn how to deal with weapons. The teachers have a year each student and his parents after the political orientation and political activities, writing judge.

The study in Cuba is free, however, all students after graduation three years for the State a social service without pay. In Cuba is the proportion of women among students is higher than in any other Latin American country. Just cut Cuban students performed better than their fellow students in Latin America in the fields of mathematics, science and language.

Part of the Cuban education is that students in regular schools cleverly country where they are training alongside their unpaid work in agriculture.