Despite the complex economic scenario Cuba is going through, the country is not giving up on guaranteeing the quality of the 2024-2025 school year, which will begin on 2 September.

Among the actions taken for this purpose is to guarantee the study material base, which from this year onwards will include specific designs for each level of education in order to make the process more attractive.

According to Ernesto Fernández, deputy dean of the Higher Institute of Industrial Design, the simplicity, didacticism and inclusive nature of the teaching materials will allow students to get a better understanding of the content.

He pointed out that school textbooks had not been redesigned since the 1980s, so now they will have images appropriate to the current reality of technological development in the world and in Cuba.

Alternatives are also being sought for the shortage of teachers in areas such as Havana, where 1,213 schools with more than 200,000 students will reopen this September.

In this regard, the provincial director general of Education, Karenia Marrero, said that university students involved in the Educating for Love project, as well as reinstated professionals, educational assistants and teachers from other provinces, among others, will be linked to the institutions.

She explained that there is still a shortage of 236 teachers in the capital city and the most affected level of education is secondary school.

On this day, the Minister of Education, Naima Trujillo, affirmed that Cuba will experience a great socio-cultural festival on 2 September, and assured that the essential methodological, technical and logistical guarantees are guaranteed.

She explained that more than 1,600,000 students will go to the classroom on this occasion throughout the country, an enrolment similar to that of recent cycles, despite the demographic movement of the Antillean nation in recent years.

We have around 156,000 teachers and professors in the national territory, but this figure will grow at the beginning of the school year and even during the next few months, due to strategies adopted to complete teacher coverage, said the minister.

The Ministry of Education decided to dedicate the course to the 130th anniversary of the fall in combat of the National Hero José Martí and the 65th anniversary of the process of transforming barracks into schools, led by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.