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Leadership sources in the National Committee for Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Students confirmed their rejection of the new proposals of the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation to end the student crisis that has lasted for more than nine months.
Despite what was stated in the statement of the Dialogue Committee representing the majority groups in the House of Representatives, which stressed “the keenness of the supervising ministry to save the 2023/2024 university season in the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, and to enable students who will take the remedial exams for the first semester scheduled for September 5, 2024, to take other sessions related to the second semester,” a source from within the committee revealed that “there is a tendency to boycott this exam again.”
Regarding the reasons for this boycott, the same source confirmed that “no exam can be held while the sanctions are in effect and in light of Minister Miraoui’s intransigence in reaching a solution to this crisis,” highlighting that “the students are practically in a situation of collective failure since boycotting all previous exam sessions.”
The same source, who preferred not to be named due to “the pressures imposed,” stressed that “the rejection of the September exams has been announced since June, and this will not change unless a new context is established for dialogue with student representatives.”
The same source concluded by stressing that “the committee has never hidden its readiness to sit at the negotiating table, but the students are clinging to the demand to keep the seventh year for the current five batches, with the possibility of reducing the years later, and finding realistic and fair solutions for the transitional phase that affects the current batches.”
Regarding the majority’s mediation to end the crisis, the source noted that “it was purely media-based and was not followed by any action on the ground, as not even one meeting was held with medical students,” while he pledged to “return to dialogue when there is a serious desire for that, as the students are not against finding a way out of this crisis, provided that it is a fair and just way out for all students.”
The Dialogue Committee representing the majority groups in the House of Representatives revealed that “the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation informed it of its keenness to save the 2023/2024 academic year in the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, through its commitment and the commitment of the deans of the faculties, to enable students who will take the remedial exams for the first semester scheduled for September 5, 2024, to take other sessions related to the second semester.”
The Dialogue Committee’s statement stated that it “will ensure that the ministry’s commitments declared at the meeting in the House of Representatives on July 10, 2024 are followed up, especially with regard to lifting the sanctions issued against students and their representatives, and cancelling the zero point, in addition to programming two sessions for the first semester and the second semester, as well as working to ensure the time frame for training for the 2019-2024 cohorts according to the pedagogical formulas in effect and adopted by the competent committees.”
The committee called on students to interact positively with the proposal of the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, and to trust the institutions, stressing that it “will follow up on the implementation of the Ministry’s obligations to ensure the interests of students and achieve the best interest of the country.”
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2024-09-05 07:35:13
