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Medical students boycotted the special session exams programmed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation to begin today, Friday, October 4, 2024, to save the academic year 2023/2024.
According to informed student sources, the atmosphere for exams was absent in a number of medical faculties in Morocco, including the faculties of medicine and pharmacy in Casablanca and Rabat, as only a small number of students passed the exams, along with some of their foreign colleagues.
The same sources explained that “the percentage of boycotting the October 4 exams at the national level, according to available preliminary figures, exceeded 92 percent, after the boycott in all colleges exceeded 90 percent.”
For his part, a source from the National Committee for Medical Students revealed that “students will not pass the exams before signing a minutes of agreement guaranteeing their rights with the Ministry of Higher Education,” stressing that they are “clinging to their decision until their demands are met.”
The same sources confirmed that “passing the exams depends on signing this report, in a way that answers the problems that prompted the students to boycott in the first place.”
According to the same source, “the current programming by the Ministry of Higher Education can only be understood in the context of an attempt to undermine the efforts of the Kingdom Mediator Foundation, in which the students showed sufficient seriousness in resolving the crisis,” while he stressed that “all the efforts of the medical students are currently focused on making the landing a success.” The National Committee announced on October 5, and the rest of the forms included in the latest communication issued by the National Committee.”
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.”
The measures proposed by the Ministry, in particular, were to “enable students who passed the first semester exams in the September 5, 2024 session, to complete the second semester exams during a special special session starting from October 4, and to compensate for the zero points obtained in the previous sessions.”
Despite the efforts of a number of interveners and mediators to end the crisis that has existed between medical students and the Ministry of Higher Education for about 10 months, the most recent of which was the mediation of the Kingdom Mediator Foundation, some outstanding points still hinder reaching an agreement that satisfies both parties.
The remaining points relate to freezing the decision to reduce the training years from 7 to 6 years, lifting suspensions for official courses, retracting the dissolution of offices and student councils with an official course, and programming two sessions for each examination session.
One of the most prominent demands of medical students, which constitutes a subject of disagreement between them and the Ministry, is to exempt the current five batches from the decision to reduce the training period, as the Ministry has confirmed on several occasions that there is no intention to retract this decision, while the students cling to the fact that “there is no solution without retracting the reduction of the training period.” Genesis.”
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2024-10-07 08:42:17