This Monday young Cubans will begin to fill the ballots to guarantee access to the 84,845 places that the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) will offer this year to guarantee the continuity of studies.
In a press conference, René Sánchez, Director of admission and Labor Location of the MES, specified that of the total number of places, 37,763 will be for the Day Course (CD), 36,897 for the Course by Encounters (CpE), 4,195 for the Distance Course (CaD), and 5,990 for Short Cycle Higher Education (Escc).
He insisted on the need for aspirants to carry out a thorough analysis of the careers offered and the real possibilities of obtaining them, so that when making the selection, they put the preferred ones first, but leave the last three boxes for those for which the average is sufficient.
In this regard, he mentioned that, according to studies, more than 30 percent of those who have not acceded to Higher Education, even passing the entrance exams, has been due to the fact that they have not been able to fill out the ballots, on a whim or for little information.
Sanchez mentioned that in line with the MES policy of improving access to Higher Education and raising the levels of satisfaction of young people, a group of actions were adopted.
One of these is the one that establishes that pre-university students will be able to access pedagogical, agricultural and basic science careers without the requirement of passing entrance exams.
Such possibility will also receive, he specified, graduates of pedagogical schools and the two-year high school course selected to continue this profile on the CD.
Other initiatives are that the high school medalists in contests of knowledge at provincial or national level, they will be awarded careers in Basic Sciences and pedagogical profile without the need to take the entrance exams.
Also the winners of gold, silver or bronze medals in the national contest of Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry, and in the university programming ACM-ICPC, will receive direct engineering in Computer Science and Bioinformatics, and the career of Computer Science.
The Director of Income and Labor Location mentioned that in the way of Contest the granting of careers will take place at the end of the extraordinary call for examinations, in order to add to the career plan all the places not covered by other forms of income.
He added that in the modality of CpE, the requirement to pass the exams of Mathematics, Spanish and History, is moved to the first year of the career, but that active teachers will be exempted from that requirement.
He also announced that pre-university students may apply among their 10 options Escc programs that are offered in the entrance plan.
The entrance exams to Higher Education will take place, in its ordinary call, on 3, 7 and 10 May 2019.
the extraordinary, will occur on 18, 21 and 25 June, while the special will happen on 26, 28 and 30 August.
(With information from ACN)
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