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“Having responded to the majority of the grievances of medical students, the government decided to maintain the second part of the exams despite the boycott movement of June 26,” reveals us Abdellatif Miraoui, Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation.
“The students present for the exams represented 10 to 20% of the total number”
Stating that their attendance rate depends on the faculties, the responsible minister confirms that the students who attended the first day of exams, Wednesday June 26, represented 10 to 20% of those who received an invitation to take their exams.
If he indirectly confirms the success of the boycott movement launched by the National Commission of Medicine and Pharmacy Students, our interlocutor affirms that the second part of the exams will continue normally: “There are no contraindications” for the “cancel,” he justifies.
“The continuation of the movement is incomprehensible”
Regarding the reasons that led 80 to 90% of students to follow the boycott, the minister considers this situation “incomprehensible”, after all the meetings with the representatives of the National Commission of Students in Medicine and Pharmacy which, according to him, had allowed their grievances to be addressed.
“Our government has made a lot of efforts by granting the majority of their legitimate demands; I think they were forced to follow this movement for reasons that escape us,” wonders Abdellatif Miraoui. The second semester exams will continue, he adds, and those who do not show up will have to assume responsibility.
“There will be no blank year”
Asked whether the massive boycott of exams would not generate a blank year, Abdellatif Miraoui believes that this will absolutely not be the case, because many students attended classes in the various faculties and responded by going to the exam session.
“For there to be a blank year, exams must be cancelled throughout the academic year, but they will continue normally with the catch-up session that will take place at the end of July,” Abdellatif Miraoui explains. According to him, the calendar will not be disrupted.
“Today, the ball is in the students’ court”
Believing that the current situation was not desired by his government, our interlocutor declares that he wants to continue working so that young people take their responsibilities by passing their exams in good conditions.
“We have fully mobilized to protect the student victims of this movement who are afraid to express themselves, but we cannot do more for the others because we have already made a lot of effort,” declared the minister. His government, he assures, is not in a logic of confrontation. Its door is still open but the ball is now in the court of young students to resume their university studies.
The current situation will not change anything at the start of the next academic year because the State is capable of managing this kind of thing, concludes Abdellatif Miraoui.
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