The Totana City Council will urge the University of Murcia (UMU) to maintain the price of failed subjects taken during the second semester or annually for the year 2020/21 to all students who failed in this course, coinciding with the time of the state of alarm in the wake of the pandemic.This request to the rector of the UMU, José Luján, was agreed in the last plenary session, unanimously and at the initiative of the Municipal Group Ganar Totana-IU; in order not to enroll in failed subjects in this period.In recent months, Spain has experienced an exceptional situation along with the rest of Europe and the planet, where even today, it continues in a state of new normality.This exceptional situation has meant putting the most humane part of public and private institutions to the test, so that no one is left behind, and in this situation, it is believed that the most prestigious educational institution in the Region should be.
of Murcia.The rector of the University of Murcia promised the almost 30,000 undergraduate students and the more than 2,000 master's students, not to penalize if any subject of this second semester was suspended.In this way, students could enroll in the following course for the same price that they had paid in the current course, that is, not increasing the enrollment rate as is done in the ordinary way before a failure.The semester was very complicated for many Murcian students and among them hundreds of totaneros, without access to libraries or study rooms, all of them restricted by the health emergency that has shaken our country, adding the personal situations that the great majority have been able to experience to the being at home with the rest of the family, with the consequent noise, stress and annoyances that could have meant a worse quality in their study.After the June call, the rector of the UMU has rectified his word given to the students and has announced that this measure will only be applied to those students who justify that they have really been harmed by COVID-19; something that leaves this type of measure at discretion, and moves away from the model that a public university must follow, whose purpose must be to guarantee higher education in a universal way.
