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.

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The educational system in the Pinar del Río province has 93105 students who attend all subsystems, Pre-school, Primary, Special, Secondary, Pre-university, Technical and Professional and Adult Education.

Over the past six years, total enrolment has maintained a downward trend as a result of the same birth rate, which has repercussions on the transit of the population at school ages. The educational system with the greatest decreases have been Primary and Secondary Schools, constituting the first in the transit of the population and the diurnal courses of Technical and Vocational Education due to adjustments in the income structure.

The province has 11 municipalities, and nine of them  have areas classified as Turquino Plan where there is an enrolment of 8726 students in all educational systems, which represents 9.4% of the total for the province. In this area there are 105 centers (96 pure and 9 mixed) which are attended by 1419 teachers in front of the classroom for a ratio of one teacher for every 6.14 students. Educational efficiency indicators in these areas show stability and in most cases behave above the provincial average.

There are 24111 workers, of whom 12571 are Educators, Teachers and Professors for a ratio of one teacher for every 7.4 students and one for every 46.9 inhabitants of the province. The  total number of teachers is, 76.65% are female and 11923 are in front of the classroom for a direct pupil/teacher ratio of 7.8.

100% of the teaching labor force is qualified, 86.1% of the teachers in front of the classroom have university level. It is important for our province the level of qualification reached by our teachers, the same is the guarantee of the quality of the teaching-learning process, as well as the integral formation of our students.

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.