At end of 2016, graduates from Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic represented the largest number of international Masters and PhD students at the university, followed by those from Angola, Djibouti, Burkina Faso, and Vietnam, according to a data report from the UC’s Management Department.

Among its postgraduate courses the institution offers degrees in Educational Sciences, Architecture, Business Administration, and Mathematics Instruction.

Speaking to ACN, Elio Pérez Ramírez, UC director of postgraduate studies, explained that Masters Degree programs are curriculum based, with students required to take certain compulsory modules related to their specialty, and write a final thesis.

PhD degree courses include a tutorial provision, in which researchers conduct research into a specific issue related to their specialty, he added.

The UC’s international collaboration program is also benefiting 91 students from Africa and Asia, on scholarships studying subjects such as Civil Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, and English Language.

Iliana Delgado Crespo, the university’s international academic relations specialist, told ACN that the institution has been receiving foreign students since 1970, when its international cooperation program was first launched.
The presence of students from other nations in Cuban universities allows for academic and professional exchanges, and the continual modernization of institutions.

(ACN)

This demanding work has never been presented by the prestigious company from Camaguey, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The first performance will be in the City of Light today, and tomorrow the company presents the work at the Palais des Congres in Porte de Maillot.

Flammes de Paris (Flames of Paris) is a Russian ballet in four acts with music by Boris Assafiev and it was conceived in 1932. However, it has evolved considerably, the last adaptation being the modern version created in 2008 by the Bolshoi of Moscow.

Still, it is a little-known ballet that pays homage to the French Revolution of 1789, and is performed by the Cuban ballet company with a version of the choreographer Lila de la Torre. The challenge seems huge as they perform to the 3,700 patrons in the Congress Palace.

Carmen Mayans, the producer in France of the Camaguey group presentations, told Prensa Latina that it is a colossal effort to promote a work performed by talents of Cuban and Russian dance.

After two presentations in Paris, the Ballet of Camaguey will perform in the Zenith of Toulouse, Opera de Massy, Le Dome de Marseille, Zenith de Saint Etienne, and stages of Lyon, Niza, Bordeaux and Annecy, among other cities.

Another notable Cuban cultural event in France will take place before the end of the year with the return of the company of Santiago Alfonso and Varietés Havana Tropical, which enjoyed great success in Europe last year.

(Prensa Latina)