HAVANA, Cuba, March 12 (acn) Cuba will help the Dominican Republic to eradicate illiteracy for 2012, three years before the date established by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Next week, Cuban specialists in this field will arrive in the neighbouring Caribbean nation to collaborate with local pedagogues in literacy teaching, creative television and software production, CubaCoopera web site reports.
During the closing ceremony of the seminar Educational Practices and Teaching Management, held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Education Minister Melanio Paredes, urged sectors committed to the country's development to get involved in this project, for which actions will be immediatelytaken.
He added that it is shameful to have one million people who don't know how to read and write in his country, with the additional load of the poor teaching the children receive -18% of the almost 10 million inhabitants in the Dominican Republic are illiterate.
The top Dominican official emphasized that the problem of education is something Dominicans have to solve and urged local teachers to get more training in order to achieve a better performance at classrooms.
Paredes took on the education portfolio after the assumption of office of Dominican President Leonel Fernández, on August 16, 2008.
The Dominican minister announced the coming into effect of a program to achieve one thousand hours of quality classes, as a way of making up for the deficiencies of his country's educational system.
During his recent official visit to Cuba, the Dominican head of state expressed his government's interest in concluding cooperation accords in the field of education.
(Dominicana erradicará analfabetismo con ayuda de Cuba)
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