The BNG deputy Daniel Castro has denounced that the Xunta intends to "control" the Interuniversity Commission of Galicia (CiUG) by modifying the regulations that define its powers, while the Minister of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training, Román Rodríguez, has reproached the nationalists that "they do not care about the students".
During an oral question in the plenary session this Wednesday, the Bloque parliamentarian criticized that "what bothers the Galician government the most is being contradicted" and recalled that two years ago the CiUG already proposed that two people supervise the elaboration of the PAU exams and that the regional administration "did not even respond". "And now it is their star measure," he pointed out ironically.
In this context, Castro reiterated that the regional executive "vetoes everything it does not control or does not agree with," citing "the Valedoría do Pobo, the CGAC, or TVG" as examples.
Likewise, he defended the need to maintain "a Galician PAU" against the PP's initiative to move towards a single model for the entire State, a proposal that the BNG deputy has linked to the directives of "Génova 13".
PAU System and Cross-Accusations
Immediately after, the Minister of Education began his speech lamenting that the Bloque representative did not say "a single word in favor of the students" who are taking the PAU in a system that, he stressed, "is unfair and generates inequality".
"We ask for your support to tell the State to create a common PAU, as homogeneous as possible for all students," reiterated Rodríguez, who assured that the nationalists' "ideological fog" does not allow them to "see reality".
In his turn to reply, Daniel Castro again reproached the minister that "the errors" in the exams "mattered very little to him" because, he insisted, "he wants to control the CiUG".
"Do you believe that civil servants of the educational administration, Secondary school teachers, collaborating will be politically controlling the selectivity exams?", asked the head of Education, who defended that the Xunta is committed to "working together".
On this line, he has announced that they already have a meeting scheduled with the rectors to organize "a new university entrance exam". "It scares me when he says that we want to control the university. If you were in government, you would be much more interventionist, it is your political tradition. I insist, worry more about the students, who are unfairly treated in this exam, and work together with everyone to try to improve it," he concluded.
Debate on gender diversity in classrooms
On the other hand, the Minister of Education has answered another question from the BNG focused on attention to gender diversity in educational centers.
At this point, the nationalist deputy Iria Carreira has asked the regional official when the Galician Government plans to approve the new protocol for educational action regarding diversity in gender identity.
However, Román Rodríguez has maintained that the 2017 protocol is "fully in force" and that, moreover, there are "multiple tools", including plans against bullying and cyberbullying, which "have good data".