Cuba

In Cuba, education is mandatory and free. In the late 1960s, some 10,000 new schools were built in rural areas, where mobile libraries were organized and all religion-oriented schools were turned over to the State.In the early 1990s, the number of students registered in 9,346 elementary schools was 917,889. There were 597.997 students in 2,175 junior high schools and 314,168 alumni in technical schools and teacher’s training centers. The country’s 35 higher-education schools and faculties embrace a ballpark figure of 242.434 students.The greatest alumni are in the University of Havana, founded in 1728.The percentage of literate adults, after the 1961’s Literacy Campaign, peaked 96,1%. In the year 2001, the number of educated youngsters with ages between 12 and 14 years old (junior high school) was hovering around 99,7%.