Overview

• The academic year opened at the Colexio de Fonseca with the three rectors and the Xunta president in attendance.
• Alfonso Rueda called for consensus and reaffirmed the government’s preference for a single Medicine faculty, noting SUG funding near 1% of Galicia’s GDP and promising more resources.
• USC rector Antonio López appealed for institutional loyalty, warned of a long-term drop in students from 95,000 in 2000 to 65,000 today, and said this was his final opening as rector.
• The push by the Universidade da Coruña to establish Medicine remained a point of tension, with any expansion subject to Acsug’s pending authorization process.
• Student representative Andrés Couso demanded housing solutions, a Galician university student council, stronger use of Galician in teaching, and better facilities, and the opening lecture condemned the killing of children in Gaza.