• Education The 50 Spanish public universities see "unviable" start next year the new Selectivity
  • Education How to correct the new Selectivity: "0.25 points are deducted for spelling mistakes up to a maximum of two"

The Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has taken this Wednesday the decision to paralyze the approval of the decree that regulates the new Selectivity, which was to be held for the first time in June next year. Sources in his department have explained that it is "a gesture of responsibility" so as not to generate uncertainty in the face of a "dissolved government". The new model has generated much criticism and, although the initial approach had been modified (the controversial maturity test that merged subjects and a set of multiple-choice questions), the rectors did not finish seeing the new changes.

This morning there was a meeting between the Ministry and a representation of the Conferenceof Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) where the Alegría team explained that the new Selectivity "is not postponed", as the 50 Spanish public universities had requested, as EL MUNDO advanced. What they do is leave it "stored in a drawer, finished so that the new Government, whether PSOE or PP, can approve it in the first Council of Ministers if it considers it so."

The sources of the Ministry consulted explain that "it cannot be postponed because the Lomloe obliges the new Selectivity to be applied in the course that comes into force 2nd year of Baccalaureate", which is 2023/2024; that is, the coming course.

In other words, whoever governs should regulate a new system of access to the university, with its corresponding decree, if it wants to comply with the law. If the PSOE does, they will approve the decree that was already practically finished, pending the report of the Council of State. If the PP does, they will have to start again, because this party has promised to make a single test in all of Spain.

  • Education
  • Articles Olga R. Sanmartín
  • Secondary education
  • Selectivity
  • Pilar Alegría

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