If you do not have a child directly concerned, it is possible that you do not fully understand what is happening with Selectivity and why the 2nd year Baccalaureate students are demonstrating these days (who, moreover, have obtained a small moral victory yesterday).
The criticism is basically that after a long month of classes behind them, they still don’t know what Ebau will look like. This is a complicated year as Selectivity changes to accommodate Lomloe and although the change will take even longer, it is gradual, and this course will be changed enough that the previous examples are no longer useful.
The problem is that the Ministry of Education first made a proposal (which included a maturity test) and then withdrew it due to the criticism received and, in these, Pedro Sánchez brought forward the elections. The reform was put in a drawer until there was a new government and now the deadlines have been pushed back. Education did its part and approved in June a royal decree on minimums, which must be finalized by university rectors and the autonomous communities, which are those who hold the powers.
We are at this point. CRUE and the education ministries have not yet approved what the final exam will be – although they have floated some ideas – and students and teachers are worried because they are “working blind”. We also don’t know what Selectivity will look like, there is this reference document from the rectors, but they are right to protest because there are no references. This is the first generation this has happened to. I don’t quite see this complaint that they are in “inferior conditions compared to other appeals” because in the end they all appear for the exam in the same way, but I’ll go from there.
Perhaps it should not be this way, but the reality is that the 2nd year of the Baccalaureate is marked by the Ebau. The academic year is devoted to preparing for the exam, and without the models it is more complicated. UNED professor Juanma Moreno sums up the situation quite well: “If you put yourself in their place, the decree is not enough.” [de mínimos del Gobierno]. But if the requirement is what goes into the exam, that is known. Protests would not be justified there. What is unclear and makes sense of the complaints is that the format of the review is not known. One thing is what is included in the review and another is how you are going to ask me. A multiple-choice test is not the same as a four-page answer.
Yesterday the students’ union secured formal commitment from education and universities that exams will take place on October 26. It is curious that the two ministries are involved in something that does not depend on them (it is a community affair). Given the ministerial silence (we asked them), one can only guess that they have commitment from regional governments. In fact, some like Galicia have already released models.
It does not appear that the Students’ Union is going to replicate the successes of the 1980s student protests in which Cojo Manteca became famous – and which managed to end, among other things, the so-called “conference” of the Selectivity. Currently, they have secured commitment from two ministries. It seems more difficult for them to achieve their ultimate objective, today as in the past, of abolishing selectivity and allowing everyone to study what they want where they want. But today, they declare victory.
This week we also talked about…
- The “war” for medicine. In recent years, the autonomous communities have launched medical schools almost without control: since the beginning of this century, these centers have doubled. The problem is that although it may seem harmless, at most harmful for those who follow it and cannot find work due to too many graduates, it is dysfunctional and problematic on a social level (and that’s without even talk about the effects of privatization). that the sector knows). Here, deans and students explain why it’s a bad idea to open medical schools.
- A private university with “gaps and deficiencies”? No problem for Madrid. I continue with universities and privatization by talking about the Mecca of the sector, the Community of Madrid. The regional government will approve another center (already they win 14 to 6) despite the fact that the previous mandatory report from the Ministry of Universities was devastating with the project (in italics because some of the criticism was that they didn’t have a project, precisely). Nothing that normally worries the Ayuso executive. College will happen, in all likelihood. And it won’t be the last, other proposals are already in preparation.
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- Dual training is developing throughout the University. One campus in three already offers a program with these characteristics, of the Dual FP type, according to a study. These are training courses that place more emphasis on practices than normal training courses and in which companies participate in the development of study plans.
- The Argentine University protests against Milei. The Argentine president has put higher education – which is free in the south of the country – in the spotlight, but has faced head-on opposition from professors and professors. Campuses across the country are facing the president’s famous chainsaw. Here, the keys to what’s happening.
