Overview
- Galician president Alfonso Rueda said after Monday’s Xunta meeting that the only viable path is a single USC-run degree with fourth to sixth-year teaching also delivered in A Coruña and Vigo.
- The Universidade da Coruña is set to ask its Consello de Goberno on Tuesday to approve a declaration of interest to launch a Medicine program targeted for 2027–2028.
- That approval would be the second formal step after opening the file, preceding the verification report, public disclosure, and subsequent internal sign-offs.
- Talks remain tense, with USC bristling at UDC’s public charge of inflexibility and recent discussions limited to rectors after the wider working group stopped meeting in late July.
- A central hurdle is who hires and manages teaching staff, as USC opposes allowing A Coruña and Vigo to recruit their own professors, and UVigo has signaled it could seek a new faculty if no updated deal is reached.