Background and Development of the Distance Education Program in Cuba: Guided Education by Antonia Mirand Justiniani and Maria Yee Sueret

Since the triumph of the revolution in 1959 there have been substantial transformations in many fields, education being one of the most important. There has also been a great improvement in the National Education System as a whole, which involved important qualitative and quantitative changes that, in large measure, contributed to an extraordinary growth in student admissions at all levels, but especially at the university level.