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Cuba Experiencing a Teacher Shortage as School Year Begins
Cuba begins Monday its 2014-2015 school year with almost 2 million students in 10,366 schools and close to 172,000 teachers, 93 percent of the number that administrators say are needed.
Making the school organization more “flexible” is the novelty of this academic year, when for the first time teachers and principals will be the ones who organize the school-day schedule and other activities in the educational process.
Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez has insistently predicted during a number of public appearances that the comprehensive education of pupils “will be superior” during this academic year, because there will be more time to “enrich” their knowledge and abilities and to influence their vocational training.
As in previous school years, the deficit of teachers is one of the challenges faced by a country calculated to need 183,100 teachers but only has 93.1 percent of that number, so that the alternative has been to hire back retired educators and directors in the sector, as well as taking on people qualified in specific areas.
The education minister says it is “vital” to have full teaching coverage.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/cuba-experiencing-a-teacher-shortage-as-school-year-begins/31014#When:22:48:08Z
