Cuban Higher Education has consolidated its universities for mature adults on a national level this academic year, registering 16,475 students in basic college courses and 8,737 in continuing ed.

The classes in the 869 centers around the country are taught by more than 5,000 professors, the Cuban Higher Education Ministry informed Thursday at a meeting in Havana.

Classroom locations are flexible, in and outside of universities, in places such as museums, agricultural co-ops, veterans associations, community schools, etc.

Created in the 2000, these study centers for older people have graduated more than 30,000 people, the over 100 Cuban and foreign participants at the 2006 third International Older Ed Workshop and fourth National Meeting of Provincial Chairs were told.

The conference emphasized that Cuban education´s continuing challenge is to give older people the necessary resources for intellectual and emotional development, to let them know more about the world in which they live.

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