Overview
- UVigo’s governing council declined to vote on the decentralization agreement after USC refused to ratify it and will now prepare a standalone Medicine program.
- Rector Manuel Reigosa set an internal timetable with a program memory due 27 February, a technical report the following month, and a formal submission to the Xunta before 1 June 2026.
- UVigo estimates the degree would cost about €12.5 million annually, with roughly 40% covered by the university for teaching staff for around 100 students from first to sixth year.
- UDC, which had approved the pact, is advancing its own path with a drafting commission as rector Ricardo Cao points to successful smaller-cohort models and underscores Novo CHUAC expansion and the need for Xunta funding.
- Xunta president Alfonso Rueda urged USC to resolve internal disputes and reiterated a preference for one large Galician faculty; the pact had been validated by the Consello de Coordinación da Docencia Clínica before USC’s faculty rejection.