14ymedio, Havana, 6 April 2024 — Russia, which already controls investments, companies and all kinds of businesses on the Island, will have its hand in another field: education. As reported this Friday by the Tass agency, the Kremlin plans to open a subsidiary of the Federal University of the South (SFU) at the end of the year, with the approval of the University of Havana and the Ministry of Higher Education. “The project is in the final stage. Changes are being prepared in the university statutes and all the documents to be sent to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,” Inna Shevchenko, rector of the SFU, told the state agency.
The Cuban SFU, which prides itself on being the first branch of a foreign university on the Island, will aim to prepare “Cubans for admission to Russian universities,” and includes “plans to implement their own master’s programs and additional vocational education,” said the rector without clarifying whether Cuba will also begin to send, as in the years of alliance between Cuba and the Soviet Union, young university students to study en masse in Russia.
The rector also explained that the subsidiary will adopt the programs of the preparatory faculty of the Russian headquarters
The rector also explained that the subsidiary will adopt the programs of the preparatory faculty of the Russian headquarters and plans, for the 2025-2026 academic year, to have its first graduates in the master’s degree program in Pedagogical
