Medical students cling to continuing the boycott and refuse to “disrupt” the Kingdom’s mediator

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The crisis file of medical, pharmacy, and dentistry students, which has lasted for more than nine months, is heading toward greater “complication,” after student representatives expressed their commitment to continuing the boycott, and their refusal to “disrupt” the Kingdom’s mediator.

According to what was reported by sources close to the students concerned, “the majority of them are moving to boycott the October 4 exams, despite the recent measures announced by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation.”

The same sources confirmed that “the worrying developments in this crisis, especially the violence against Rabat students during the dispersal of their sit-in and the follow-up of some of their representatives, may prompt the few who passed the remedial exams for the first semester of the September 5th session to join the ranks of the boycotting students in turn.”

The Ministry of Higher Education had announced a package of measures mainly concerned with facilitating the taking of exams for the striking students and determining the date of their university entry, which the students considered “an attempt to confuse the efforts led by the mediator institution to sign an agreement between the two parties.”

According to the aforementioned sources, “the students believe that this mediation is not over, and they are still waiting to hear Minister Abdel Latif Mirawi’s response to their pending demands,” and they consider that “the ministry’s report did not bring anything new as long as it did not provide an answer to the demands represented in excluding the five payments.” The first is the decision to reduce the years of medical training from 7 to six years.”

According to the same sources, “the measures announced in the communication, including enabling the striking students who will pass the second semester exams for the first time during the October 4th session of a special special session related to the first semester exams, and compensating the zero points obtained in previous sessions, did not attract the majority of students.” Which is moving towards continuing the boycott.”

The same sources concluded that “medical students are still open to the mediator institution, and are waiting to hear Minister Abdel Latif Mirawi’s response to the outstanding demands they raised during the last meeting with the mediator.”