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Professional technical education

Before the triumph of the Revolution, there were around 14 Technical schools in the country, most of them Agricultural, mainly sugar cane and 4 Industrial, in 1961 the Industrial technical schools increased, mainly in Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara and Holguín, increasing every year. due to the technological changes of the companies perfecting at various times the teaching.

The youth movement schools were created under the decree: 3664 of May 17, 1971 with the aim of promoting, organizing and controlling the increase in the educational level of young people between 13 and 16 years of age, with great school delay and disconnected from the National education system, providing them with the learning of a trade through the linkage in the work centers. These have undergone transformations as a consequence of the educational development as well as the requirements of the production, services and characteristics of the student. This resulted in the May 17, 1989 Decree Law: 151 was created by the Council of Ministers and its Executive Committee, where the trade schools and their objectives are created. The vocational schools have as their essential objectives, "to reincorporate under-schooled young people with no ties to the National Education System, offering them the opportunity to prepare themselves in a trade for incorporation into working life.

The students who graduate from the trade schools carry out activities that respond to a deficit trade of the economy and the services of the territories. These are defined by the municipal governments, subsequently allowing the insertion and job placement of students in the same jobs.

The Technical and Professional Education in the municipality has 1 educational center for the training of the qualified force that the production and service organizations demand, which works as a mixed one, with basic secondary school. Currently, students are preparing in 5 specialties to the branches of production and services which respond to the following specialties: Forestry 3rd year 12 students, 17 Accounting, 7 Human Capital Management and 7 Social Worker.

The agreements with the different organizations have been signed, a work system has been implemented with the vice-president of the municipal government, which has generally allowed the insurance of the 4 annexed classrooms and the 17 professionals of the necessary organisms to cover the needs of the labor force.

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