In a lecture about the issue, as part of activities of the Tenth International Congress Universidad 2016, in session at the Havana Conference Center, Velazquez said the current updating covers general education, technical education and vocational education.

She noted that the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 meant a rebirth of education in Cuba.

She said that thanks to that sociopolitical event, Cuba got rid of illiteracy and proclaimed education as a universal right, achieving rapid standards of quality that took the country to a leading place in the quality of training.

Velazquez said we are currently on a third comprehensive improvement or updating process aimed at a comprehensive, flexible, contextualized and participative curricular conception, which means that it envisages a major role of the family and the community in academic and civil formation, in line with the Cuban society's high levels of requirement and expectations about education and the professors.

That's why the new guidelines make emphasis on the teaching of civic education, English and the new information technologies in order to form better citizens, prepared to accomplish the challenges and requirements of the contemporary world of work, she concluded.

At least 2,500 delegates from over 60 countries are attending Universidad 2016, scheduled to run through Feb.19, to discuss the innovative role of universities for sustainable human development.