abcleónThe Minister of Education, Rocío Lucas, explained yesterday that the Council will support the implementation of the medical degree in the universities of Burgos and León “provided there is consensus and quality guarantees.” In his opening speech of the academic year at the University of León, he referred to the words spoken on Wednesday by the regional president, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, insisting that the regional government “will not turn its back on the collective illusion generated by these legitimate aspirations and will provide its personal commitment to make these degrees a reality.
The head of the Education portfolio also explained that during the meeting with the rectors scheduled for October 2 Other issues will also be addressed such as the implementation of the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), academic planning, investments or research.
Before the councilor’s intervention, the rector of the ULE, Nuria González, in office for barely three months, yesterday placed her “hopes” in the meeting chaired by Fernández Mañueco, where she will present “the report prepared in recent months” to try to “show the viability” of the implementation of the medical degree in the academic institution.
After the words of the top regional leader, González said he had “great expectations” for the event. for a “historic and just” claim“, since the institution “has the talent and some of the resources necessary to have a Faculty of Medicine”, which “would respond to an obvious demand from society”.
In the event that the meeting results in a consensus in favor of the Faculty of Medicine of León, the rector hopes that “the timetable for its implementation will also be discussed”. In this sense, he assured that the ULE “is well prepared, especially for the first years of the Degree”, where “we would have the educational resources to be able to implement it as soon as possible”. Meanwhile, the mayor of Burgos, Cristina Ayala, considered the possible arrival of medicine “since the investment in the Human Evolution complex is the most important news for the city from the Council long demanded by the people of Burgos”, she exclaimed, reports Ical.
