Overview
- Rector Antonio López removed the Medicine pact from USC’s governing council agenda and delayed the vote indefinitely to start talks with the Faculty of Medicine.
- The faculty had formally rejected the decentralization plan, and the USC Student Council raised concerns about student mobility and equity.
- Education chief Román Rodríguez and Health chief Antonio Gómez Caamaño cautioned that, without renewed consensus, they will evaluate every possible scenario.
- The Universidade da Coruña declared the prior agreement void and said it will resume work toward establishing its own Faculty of Medicine.
- UVigo deferred its decision to Monday as local leaders in Vigo and A Coruña renewed calls to back their universities’ bids for their own medical schools.