The university of Holguín, with more than 11 thousand students and 1,700 professors, distinguished itself in 2018 for the improvement of its teaching programs, mainly through the introduction of new careers and teaching modalities.

Roberto Pérez, vice rector of teachingprocess at the center, said that recently, careers likeHydraulics and Electricity Engineering were open, according to the economic potential of the territory and other regions of the eastern Cuba regarding those branches.

The disciplines, he explained, are developed through the meeting course modality, since Holguín requires to train those workers already graduated who are working on this fields.

During 2018, Holguín university also implementedshort cycle education, a novel program, designed to guarantee the continuity of studies of Cuban youth, offering two-year, non-university careers, but with a superior connotation to those of Middle Level Technicians.

Also in 2018, in this house of high studies, the level of socialization between sciences and the field of the humanities was consolidated with the realization of research and multiple projects referred fundamentally to the protection of the environment.

Likewise, the university-society alliance gained strength with the work of the Local Development Support Group, and new foreign cooperation agreements were signed with the higher education facilities of Farmingdale, in the United States, and the Chinese Lanzhou Jiatong.

The Holguín educational center in this context, steps up into 2019, working on the training and improvement of professionals andthe integration, by raising the quality of methods, besides the improvement of short cycle education and the English language teaching, among other projects and programs.

According to the rector, Doctor in Sciences Reynaldo Velázquez, it will be essential for this effort unity, commitment, communication, professionalism, creativity, and above all, exigency.