Russia’s plans to open university in Cuba in ‘final stage’

Russia, which already controls investments, companies and all kinds of businesses in Cuba, will have its hand in another field: education, reports 14ymedio.com.

As reported on Friday 5 April 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 masters 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.
Full report on the Translating Cuba site