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USC Stalls Medicine Decentralization Plan as Xunta Warns 'All Options' Are Open

UDC moves to revive its own faculty bid following the postponement.

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.