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 The Budget of the Ministry of Education shall not be less than the ordinary budget of any other Ministry, except in case of an emergency declared by law.

The monthly salary of primary teachers must not in any case be less than one-millioneth of the total budget of the Nation.

The official teaching staff has the rights and duties of public officers.

The nomination, promotions, transfers and removal of public teachers and professors, inspectors, technicians and other school officers shall be so regulated that they shall be influenced by no considerations other than strictly technical ones, without detriment to vigilance as to the morals of such officers. All positions in the direction and supervision of official primary instruction shall be filled by technical graduates of the corresponding University course.

53. The University of Havana is autonomous and shall be governed in accordance with its Statutes and with the law, to which the Statutes must conform.

The Nation shall contribute to create the University patrimony and to the maintenance of said University, allotting for this purpose, in its national budgets, the amount fixed by law.

54. Official or private universities can be created, and any other institutions and centres of higher learning. The conditions by which they will be regulated shall be determined by law.

55. Official instruction shall be laic. Centres of private instruction shall be subject to regulation and inspection by the Nation, but in every case shall retain the right to give, separately from the technical instruction, the religious education which they desire.

56. In all teaching centres, public or private, the teaching of the literature, history and geography of Cuba, as well as of civics and the Constitution, must be done by teachers who are Cubans by birth and with text books of authors having that same character.

57. To engage in teaching, it is necessary to evidence the capacity to do so, in the manner fixed by law.

The non-teaching professions, arts or trades that require degrees for their exercise, and the manner in which they shall be obtained, shall be determined by law. The Nation shall insure preference, in the furnishing of public services, to citizens officially prepared for the respective specialty.