What to do to apply for the Day Care Center:

- Go to the Municipal  Education Office on days of attention to the population (Mondays and Fridays) and request the application form for enrollment in a day care center together with the Letter of Update of the Work nexus of the mother or guardian of the minor.
- Complete and take both documents to the work center where the mother or guardian of the minor works so that it can be endorsed by the immediate boss and the union section of the center.
- Put the legible stamp of the body where the mother or guardian works on both documents.
- If the staff applying for the children's circle does not work and constitutes a social case, both documents must be endorsed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
- These documents (application form for enrollment in a children's circle together with the letter updating the working link of the mother or guardian of the child) are delivered to the Municipal Directorate of Education by the mother or guardian of the child personally who receives a receipt with a scale that does not mean only the order of receipt.
-The application form for enrollment in children's circles lasts for one year, at the end of it, is updated again if you have not been granted the children's circle.
- When the children's circle is granted, the parents are informed by the Municipal Directorate of Education or by the Director of the children's circle if it is from the municipality of Pinar del Río.

You can download here the application form for enrollment in children's circles

What to do when the child in the program educates your child turns 4:

- The family should approach the nearest school on the 1st day of the school year.
- Present the child's card to be taken into account in the projection of the subsequent year for the preschool grade.
- You will be attended by the preschool teacher in the 4 to 5 year old group with your family, never alone.
- The child is not attended in the school but in community spaces near the school, with a frequency of 2 times a week.
- The teacher arranged a day of attention and schedule with the family.

The Technical and Professional Education (TPE) school network in Pinar del Río prioritizes the implementation of Socio Productive Projects in all centers and specialties. These projects allow students to acquire knowledge, develop skills and aptitudes for the job; in turn, they contribute to the solution of problems in communities that require a productive process and/or the provision of services, together with facilitators and family. Among those with the greatest impact are those aimed at:

• Counselling and construction of school gardens and cook's gardens; gardens of medicinal and ornamental plants.
• Cultivation of flowers for communal services.
• Manufacture and repair of school furniture, teaching aids and study material.
• Manufacture of toys for children with chronic health problems, hospitalized or children of parents with low purchasing power and Children's Circles, for these institutions also produce clothing.
• Manicure, peeling, hairstyling and sewing services in the grandparents' house.
• Repair of instruments, devices, tools or accessories for schools and work centres.
• Advice for different crops and soil conservation measures.
• Construction work including masonry, veneer, carpentry, electrical, hydraulic and sanitary installations in workplaces and educational centers in support of the needs of the community, such as promoting the construction of houses affected by hurricanes and the subsidy program.

The Technical and Professional Education in Pinar del Río guarantees the continuity of studies to qualified workers, complying with the provisions of Ministerial Resolution 311 of 2011, so that they can be incorporated into Technical Education, in the course modality for workers with a duration of two and a half years and thereby respond to the changes that originate in the economy of the country.

Students in their first year of ETP can apply to their polytechnic's management for enrolment in order to achieve insertion at this level.

The Basic Secondary School is an educational level that includes the 7th, 8th and 9th grades where the students experience a set of psycho-atomophysiological changes. It develops the integral formation of adolescents, sustained by a civic-citizen, economic and environmental care culture that allows them to love and be willing to defend the principles of the Cuban Revolution and contribute to the development of the socialist homeland.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1-Can a student at the end of the 9th grade opt for a specialty by direct award?

The National Association of Small Farmers, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministries of Construction deliver to the Provincial Direction of Education the students' proposals, which are approved in the Vocational Training and Professional Orientation Group. For it the Palaces of Pioneers certify that these students had outstanding results in the circles of interest, in the same way, it proceeds with the proposals of direct pass to the pedagogical specialties: Educator of Day Care Center , Primary Teacher,  Special Education Teacher, Teacher of English for Primary, and Teacher of Basic Secondary in the specialties Mathematics and Physics, this last one with opening in the next years to other subjects that are priority for this educational level.

For the direct pass to the Pre-university Vocational Institute of Exact Science "Federico Engels," in the province of Pinar del Río, students who obtain gold in one of the national contests of Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry or Physics have the possibility of covering one of the places awarded to the municipality where he resides, as well as the best work in the provincial contest of Geography.

The direct award is a stimulus for students who have had a sustained performance in the circles of interest, the specialty for which they choose

The purpose of youth and adult education is to contribute to the integral formation of workers, housewives, young people and adults in general, in correspondence with the updating of the economic and social model of the country in coordination with agencies, mass organizations and institutions of society.

Among the priorities of this education are:

- Working for the incorporation of the illiterate and under-schooled.

- Raising the quality of student learning, with emphasis on graduates of the skilled worker who enrol in the Faculty of Labour and Farmer (FOC).

- Monitoring and control of the preparation courses for matrculating  to Higher Education (these courses will incorporate students who come from Order 18, so they are urged to approach enrolling next year in the FOC of their community. They can enroll in the first semester, which begins in October or the second semester that begins in January, can take advantage of one of the 2 schedules established for them, one starts from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and the other from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

- Attention to penitentiary facilities.

- The work of Language Schools and the development of Community Language Projects as a social need of the population under 17 years old.

- Follow-up of the experiment that is being carried out in the province based on the improvement that is being carried out in the National Education System.

- Follow-up on the opening of special training courses aimed at preparing teachers to carry out foreign collaboration missions with the prior authorization of the municipal directors of education.

Requirements for admission to adult education at the level of the Faculty of Labour and Farmer:

- Be at least 17 years old and 9th grade.

- To be a worker or to belong to ANAP endorsing this condition with a letter from the work center or agricultural production cooperative, as the case may be.

- Presentation of the letter from the work center, documents from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security or from ONAT in the case of self-employed workers.

- Be a housewife, guaranteeing this condition with a letter from the FMC block to which the interested party belongs.

- Presentation of the identity card and the diploma or certification of completed studies.

- In the case of graduates of Qualified Laborers, their enrollment is allowed even when they do not have an employment relationship.

Requirements for admission to Adult Education Language Schools:

- Be at least 17 years old. Graduates of specialties of Qualified Workers, with 15 or 16 years old, who have an employment relationship, are exempted from this requirement.

- Have at least a 9th grade pass.

- Be an active worker.

- Enroll in only one language.

- Exceptionally and provided that no worker is displaced, admit housewives, retirees, other high school students, university students and those non-workers who for socio-economic interests of the locality and for the emergent creation of sources of work, require preparation in language schools.

- Presentation of the identity card and the diploma or certification of completed studies.

- Presentation of a letter from the work centre stating the need to improve oneself in a certain language.

Languages currently being studied at the "Andrés Bello López" Language School:

- English (this language is taught in 4 levels).

- French (this language is taught in 4 levels).

- Portuguese (this language is taught in 3 levels).

It is possible to apply from the 1st to the 3rd level (in English and French languages) by means of a classification exam and for the 4th level by means of a title exam. In the case of the Portuguese language it is classified in 1st and 2nd level and the 3rd by a title exam.