Classified as strategic the opening of the Higher School of State and Government Cadres

The Cuban Minister of Higher Education (MES), Miguel Diaz-Canel, today described as strategic the opening of the Higher School of State and Government cadres, which will host about 150 students in eight-week courses.

It constitutes a strategic, necessary, urgent, decisive activity that requires improvement, scientificity, objectivity and efficiency, he said in the presence of the first Cuban Vice President, José Ramón Machado Ventura. The foundational bases, added Díaz-Canel, are contained in the national strategy of overcoming the cadres and responds to the critical accusations in the matter made by President Raúl Castro in the VI Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

The also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PCC explained that the students of Public Administration and Business Management should strengthen their authority and preparation.

The presence of 39 percent of state or government cadres among those enrolled makes them get involved because they are linked to the country's main productive and social management processes, said the minister.

Among the challenges mentioned was to achieve quality and scientific rigor, conducting research to update management issues and the development of a participatory pedagogy.

The Vice Chancellor of the School, Mercedes Delgado, highlighted the presence among the students of 40 percent of women, and three fifths of the total will be professors of both graduates in 10 other branch schools of agencies in the capital.

They also plan to take graduates of public administration and business management the next January to other 14 provinces with the collaboration of universities, said the Director of Training of the MES, Gerardo Montenegro. (PL)