[NYTr] Cuba, Nicaragua Increase Educational Cooperation
 
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:58:22 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuba-Nicaragua Boost Educational Cooperation

Havana, Oct 2 (acn) Cuba and Nicaragua are strengthening cooperation in 
the field of education through the implementation of the Cuban teaching 
method "Yes, I can" in that Central American country.

Cuban Education Minister, Luis Ignacio Gomez, arrived in Managua on 
Monday, to review with his Nicaraguan counterpart, Miguel de Castilla, 
the state of bilateral relations in the educational sector.

Gomez, who was welcomed at Managua's international airport by De 
Castilla, will also meet with eight Cuban consultants who are 
supervising the development of the literacy campaign undertaken in 
Nicaragua.

According to the Cuban minister, another ten specialists from the 
island will shortly join the efforts being carried out in Nicaragua to 
declare the nation free of illiteracy by 2009.

Gomez noted that Cuba plans to support the continuity of the studies up 
to sixth grade for all the people who learn to read and write thanks to 
the literacy campaign.

The Cuban minister will be bestowed with an Honoris Causa Doctorate 
degree by the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, in Leon, 90 
kilometers northwest from Managua, where he is also scheduled to 
deliver a keynote lecture on the educational system in Cuba.

The bestowing of the distinction responds to an historical nexus 
established with that university since the triumph of the Sandinista 
Revolution in 1979 when Gomez acted as consultant for Higher Education 
in Nicaragua.
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