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The potentialities of the educational units as medium of university extension, as material vehicle of promotion of culture, in their more wide meaning, it is the referring that defends this work. It includes a summaries of the main epistemological conceptions about the extension as university process, as well as those that it maintain to the educational units as fundamental vehicle for the investigative labor formation and it reflects about the possibilities of these to be a canal that possesses the university to extend their culture to community. Appear also a proposal of methodology for the development of the process of university extension in the educational units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preparing professionals for pursuing a Ph.D. is a current and constant concern of postgraduate education in Cuba. A lot a work is been done to help advisers, critiques and participants in examination boards improve their performances while advising or evaluating thesis. This paper is intended to contribute to such preparation by putting the qualitative and the quantitative approaches and their usage in the center of PhD's reflections and by giving opinions and suggestions that help doctors and doctors-to-be improve what they are doing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search of the excellence in the superior education is a current demand that one manifests in the will of a continuous improvement of the university teaching on scientific bases what impels the development of the pedagogic investigation, where it has a fundamental paper the improvement of the administration, of the educational process and of the methodological activity to perfect and to optimize this process. Was the scientific problem identified how to contribute to solve inadequacies that are presented in the formation of the professionals and those they stay in the time? A road is the development of a methodological work of quality and to know its state they developed interviews to educational chief and careers chief of five academic areas of the University of Ciego de Ávila and the SUM of Majagua, analysis to five serial plans of methodological work of an academic area and educational department. It was demonstrated that most of the causes that originate the problem are due to inadequacies in the administration, of here that the objective of the present investigation was the elaboration of a methodology to design the plan of work methodological group like system that it contains the most significant elements in the administration to contribute to elevate the quality of the methodological work and the excellence of the educational process. The methodology was designed, it was corroborated by experts' approaches and professors and it was used for the elaboration of a plan of methodological work that them evaluated the elements of the methodology among very appropriate and quite appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]