UNESCO recognizes work in
 Cuban schools

UNESCO has highlighted the work being done within the school movement associated with the international agency, the AIN reports.

The recognition was expressed in the Santa Clara meeting of the scientific societies of the Ernesto Guevara Pre-University Vocational Institute of Exact Sciences.

Dr. Ismael Santos, program coordinator for the country’s central region, announced that the effective functioning and active participation of students and teaching staff on research projects has been acknowledged on various occasions, as noted in today’s Juventud Rebelde.

Santos stressed that at national level there are 72 schools linked to UNESCO in urban and rural areas and at various teaching levels, in which 14 provinces are represented.

The basic themes being investigated by the students, advised by teachers, are in the context of peace, human rights and other peoples and cultures, as well as environmental conservation.

The work underway in those educational institutions is strengthening the changes within the educational system in the heat of the Battle of Ideas and helps to channel the basic goals that each teaching model contains.