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NATIONAL Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney has called Cuba’s “free, universal and inclusive education system a beacon across Latin America and the Caribbean.”
At a time when socialist governments across the continent face destabilisation and worse, it’s worth a look at what a difference they can make to people’s lives.
After this month’s Unions for Cuba conference Nayda Elisa Diaz Luis of Cuba’s education union the SNTECD met me to explain some of the ways in which Cuba’s schools are different from those over here.
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