Achieving stability in the completion of teaching staff after the salary increase that led to the return to the classroom of more than 400 educators is a priority in the province of Matanzas, according to the Minister of Education, Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, who along with the vice president of The Councils of State and Ministers, Roberto Morales Ojeda, visited several school institutions in the territory.
“The increase in salary is a circumstance that will not be repeated all the courses, the tendency will be the decrease of educators who request to return, so we must continue with equal or more impetus the recruitment of students to train in the profile of teaching and differentiated attention to the teacher, in recognition of his work of great social impact and as a means to meet his most urgent needs,”said Velázquez Cobiella at the René Fraga Moreno Pedagogical School in Matanzas city.
The center, with an enrollment of 458 students, generally fails to comply with its entry plans and has one of the lowest efficiency rates in the country: only 51 percent of the students who join graduate.
Faced with this reality, Morales Ojeda stressed the importance of encouraging love for teachers from an early age and involving the community and political and mass organizations in that effort:
“Pedagogical schools must be a model of hygiene, beauty and citizenship; they must have a differentiated attention in all aspects and reflect in their material conditions and in the preparation of the cloister, the value we grant them”.
The constructive situation of teaching institutions was also addressed. According to the Deputy Director of Economy of the Provincial Directorate of Education, Noel García Tirse, just over 20 percent of the school’s facilities in the territory are in poor condition. To reverse this scenario, a figure of approximately nine million pesos was allocated for maintenance and one million to the investment plan.
The Cuban leader said that maintaining the condition of the real estate evaluated as a good constitutes the greatest challenge, since the conservation of buildings was neglected for a long time and the problems accumulated gradually, which makes rehabilitation work more complex and, therefore, the cost from the same. He also expressed interest in recovering palaces and pioneer camps, facilities also necessary as part of the educational system to develop professional guidance and favor the recreation of children and youth.
The first stop of the tour was the Ernst Thaelmann Polytechnic Institute that is currently undergoing capital repairs. The institution, with an enrollment of 563 students, exhibits improvements in shelters, workshops and classrooms, also strengthens ties with the employers’ organizations from which an important part of its professors come.
Morales Ojeda, in exchange with schoolchildren and teachers, said that the goal for this type of centers should be to encourage the desire to reach higher levels of qualification that allow the successful application of scientific developments in problems of industry and agriculture.
With this visit both leaders give continuity to other meetings in which they analyzed the situation of the educational sector in the province, essentially affected by the lack of teachers and the deterioration of their infrastructure.
As planned, the tour also included the Luis Augusto Turcios Lima Sports Initiation School, the University of Medical Sciences and the University of Matanzas.
• Written in collaboration with Odalys Oriol Miranda Suárez
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