"The new entrance tests to the medical faculties have led to an increase in enrollments. We naturally care that this test is meritocratic because the selection must be based on merit and many times the logic of the tests risks escaping this principle".
Undersecretary for Education
Paola Frassinetti
today
in Genoa
for Sea Day, comments on the new Tolc Meds one day after their inception.
"The government's goal is to combat the shortage of doctors in Italy, especially in the emergency rooms - he concluded. It is an emergency, we want to insert young specialists as quickly as possible in the structures and polyclinics, the most suitable institutions for combine healthcare with new researchers".
The reactions to the closed number
Meanwhile, the
student unions
contest the limited number, asking for it to be overcome in favor of a more inclusive model.
The Union of University Students
and the
High School Students Network
yesterday held a flash mob in front of the Ministry of Education and Merit, while further initiatives were carried out at universities across the country.
"We are against this model of access to higher education, based on national and local programmed numbers. We make ourselves heard - says
Federico Amalfa
of Udu
- with demonstration actions that will continue until 22 April.
We started with the flash mob in front of the ministry, on the occasion of the first entrance tests to medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine.
In the next few days we will be at the university entrances to distribute our guides and give support to the 80,000 people who are participating in these tests". access to Medicine and Veterinary courses.
Amalfa continues: "We do not consider the announced expansion of 30% of the places available in Medicine sufficient. For this reason, we ask that we move towards the definitive overcoming of the programming of accesses through a progressive enlargement. We are in fact aware of how it is not possible to immediately overcome the programmed number, having to guarantee a high level of quality of teaching and internships.On the other hand, a path made of political will and investments in space, the right to study and integrated University Hospitals is needed, as well as adapting secondary hospital structures to the reception and training of trainees".
"This year - ends Amalfa - some aspects of the Tolc-Med and Tolc-Vet have complicated the lives of aspiring doctors and veterinarians.
We are perplexed by the fact that after carrying out the test a different individual difficulty coefficient will be generated which will affect the final result.
This is a fairly random statistical evaluation.
In addition to this, the forecast of the second test session, certainly positive, betrays an absolute disorganization as it was scheduled for the period from 15 to 25 July, close to the final exams".
"The numerus clausus is incompatible with an education model that should be based on democracy and the universality of the right to study. We believe that access to knowledge should be an incompressible right and we are against a vision of education tertiary sector that is work-centric. For this reason we believe that students should be able to freely orient themselves towards the faculty that can best stimulate their knowledge, aspirations and skills" adds
Giorgio Carratta
of the High School Students Network, also in response to the doctors' union organizations which, in recent months, have expressed themselves against the abolition of the limited number because it does not solve the shortage of doctors.
Finally, the student unions announce that they are ready to fight in court for any irregularity they may encounter during the exams.
ANSA Agency
University: tests for access to Medicine are underway, 80,000 students enrolled - Chronicle
Schillaci, "more places but no stop to limited numbers, the real shortage is among nurses".
Student protests (ANSA)
