Cuban Rector to Participate as Panelist in Summit of the Americas

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 2 (acn) In the presence of over 400 rectors of Latin America and the United States, Gustavo Cobreiro, rector of the University of Havana, will present Cuba's vision of how to achieve access to free, quality higher education that has an impact in the development of the region.

In his conversation with the press, Cobreiro, the only Cuban academician that will attend as a panelist the Forum of Rectors of the 7th Summit of the Americas, commented about the challenges of education in the region, which will be the object of debates during the meeting.
The first challenge is to increase access to higher education, he underlined, and with equity, not from commercial exploitation, because it is true that the university registration rate in Latin America has increased, but mostly based on the growth of the private sector, which already has half of the institutions.
For this reason, emphasis will be made in the increase of the State's participation in academic training, so that in turn this leads to a decrease in poverty in the region, he concluded.
Cuba will attend this Forum, to be held parallel to the 7th Summit of the Americas, with a delegation of 13 rectors and three personalities invited: Eusebio Leal Spengler, Eduardo Torres Cuevas and Sergio Guerra Villaboy.