from 8 to 10 classrooms, kindergarten, administrative offices, work rooms, refectory porter's lodge, cloakrooms, playgrounds, gardens, plots for cultivation, etc.
This school building plan is to continue, and the government is determined to provide all schools, primary, secondary
and technical, with buildings offering the most favourable possible conditions for education.
Educational Equipment
A committee has been set up by ministerial Committee decision for the acquisition of educational equipment for primary schools. It is composed of representatives of kindergartens, teachers of handwork, music, drawing, etc. Private Education Rules have been laid down as regards attendance and instruction in private schools. These function under the same conditions as official primary schools.
ORGANIZATION Literacy Campaign
A literacy campaign has been worked out which will eliminate illiteracy throughout the country by means of the gradual introduction of an educational programme the aim of which is not only to teach adults to read and write, but also to provide them with essential basic education. Anti-illiteracy activities will be co-ordinated with regular school education by the Ministry of Education. The headmasters' commission has thanked the press for the literacy campaign carried on in the most important national newspapers and 1 From the reply sent by the Cuban Ministry of Education.
130 CUBA magazines and has appealed to teachers and inspectors to cooperate in the scheme. At school inspectors' meetings, held annually in each province, inspectors have studied and discussed the causes of illiteracy. They were further advised to work out measures to advance the literacy campaign. Primary and Secondary
To make known the extent and material of last Education Seminars year's seminars on primary and secondary education, the work of the various commissions has been published. The volume on primary education is divided into five parts :
(1) aims of primary education in Cuba;
(2) curricula;
(3) syllabuses;
(4) educational problems from the sixth class onwards;
(5) the present state of education and possible solutions.
The secondary education volume deals with the following points :
(1) aims of secondary education in Cuba ;
(2) curricula and syllabuses;
(3) technical and administrative problems;
(4) secondary education teaching staff.
Certain points in the conclusions reached by these semináis are gradually being put into effect and the publication of the results of the work will help achieve further improvement in education.
CURRICULA, SYLLABUSES, METHODS
Upper Primary Syllabuses
The work of the primary education seminar showed clearly the need to revise upper primary education syllabuses to bring them into line with present day needs. The necessary changes are now being studied.
Children's Week
Children's week is considered very important. In both public and private schools cultural events began with a day devoted to the motherland, followed by a school excursions day, a child health day, a school and teachers day, a children's spiritual welfare day and a day for physical exercises and sports competitions. Visits to the National in order to bring pupils into contact with the Museum artistic, cultural and patriotic treasures of the national museum, visits were organized, within the framework of regular primary school activities, for state school pupils of the town of Havana.
Medical College Prize
The national medical college has offered a prize to be awarded annually to the three upper primary school pupils who write the best essays
on the subject proposed.
" Sea Day "
Teachers have been instructed to devote a whole day to the study of the sea, in order to arouse in public and private primary school pupils an appreciation of the sea and the wealth it contains.
TEACHING STAFF Further Training
Numerous further training courses for teachers in service have been organized in most of the educational districts of the Republic.
The practical side of these courses has been stressed by making the participants carry out experiments of real educational value.
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Scholarships for study abroad have been awarded to primary teachers.
Cuba maintained students at the inter-american rural teacher training college at Rubio, Venezuela
, where they are specializing in rural teaching.
Students have also been sent on scholarships to the regional basic education centre at Patzcuaro, Mexico.
Status
Educational legislation on the appointment, transfer and promotion of kindergarten teachers is at present under examination. The proposed changes are intended to improve present competitive examination procedure.
AUXILIARY AND EXTRA-SCHOLASTIC SERVICES
Pilot School Library
The Ministry of Education, in close cooperation with the UNESCO regional centre for Latin America at Havana, has set up a pilot school library as a model for other school libraries in the country.
The scheme was approved by the intergovernmental advisory committee for the extension of primary education in Latin America.
School Meals
During the year the national organization for school and people's canteens extended its services by providing the most important school centres with suitable canteens. The construction of many new school buildings has provided the opportunity of installing modern refectories in schools.
School Health
The department for school health has rendered great service. The campaign launched by doctors and dentists was supplemented by periodic visits and check-ups for the pupils.
In rural areas, midwives and nurses have performed useful work in the rural missions run by the Ministry of Education.
MORE DETAILS AT THE SITE OF THE UNESCO
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000178280
TO: U.S. Attorney General William Pelham Barr
As I’ve shown in recent articles, the virus hunters have fallen far short of proving a coronavirus is causing this “outbreak.” But here come the antiviral drugs.
Seeing that our moderate Liberal government is making moves to license speech and confiscate guns, maybe its time Canadians ask themselves if the news they rely on comes from Liberty’s lips or Tyranny’s tongue.
You’ll see the fraud up front. And the hypocrisy in-between.
What was Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing when greeting Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Munich with a handshake that some people saw as bowing and scraping?
This week was dominated by the questions regarding the sentencing of political operative Roger Stone. Last January, he was subjected to a pre-dawn raid by federal officials carrying assault rifles. Somehow, CNN was informed about the raid and their cameras captured the dramatic footage of agents entering his home and arresting Stone. The former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Trump was eventually charged and convicted of making false statements, obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” —Macbeth
Thought of the Day – Are the blockades, across Canada, based on the involvement of the United Nations which has created discrimination and situations of conflict/anarchy amongst its member states? It would seem - “YES”.
