27 November 2008
Huambo — About 1,000 Angolan students will be trained in Cuban in the coming five years.
This was announced Thursday in central Huambo province by the secretary of State for Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento.
The official was speaking at the end of a visit he paid to the province, in the company of the Cuban minister of Higher Education, Juan Vela Valdês, adding that a total of 200 students will be sent to that Latin American country every year.
Of that figure, he explained, more than a half will train in health sciences.
According to Adão do Nascimento, the visit to Angola of the Cuban official is meant for a survey of the intentions of the two institutions concerning the accords signed in 2007, in Cuba, between the presidents of both countries.
He said the visit is also meant for reinforcement of existing cooperation between the institutions and the creation of new medicine courses in the provinces of Huambo, Huíla and Malanje and strengthening of existing cooperation in the provinces of Benguela and Cabinda.
The reinforcement of higher education staff, the opening of new higher programmes in the areas of technologies, are also part of the results expected from the visit of the Cuban officials.
In his turn, Juan Vela Valdês, assured that his visit has served to consolidate and develop the existing relations between the two Governments in the field of higher education.
The minister who would not say how many Cuban teachers will be sent to Angola in coming years, added that his country will do its best to help Angola to expand higher education in the country.
In Huambo, Adão do Nascimento and Juan Vela Valdês visited the Faculty of Agrarian Sciences, the future premises of the Faculty of Medicine and held meetings with Cuban teachers who lecture in the various institutions of the province.
Juan Vale Valdês is in Angola since November 25 at the invitation of the local State Secretariat for Higher Education. He has so far been to central Benguela province.
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