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The councilor Carmen Fructuoso proposes to the Plenary that the prices for suspended subjects be maintained and, "as long as this situation is not resolved and since we do not yet have municipal budgets, a provision is made so that these students can face the payment of the same The Municipal Socialist Group will defend in the next plenary session a motion in which it requests that university students with fewer economic resources or who come from more unfavorable social contexts not be "sanctioned" for second enrollment, "especially since this circumstance is very it is possible that it originates from the suspension of classroom classes due to the pandemic, "says socialist councilor Carmen Fructuoso. In this regard, he points out that "there are university students who, despite having had a great effort to adapt to this new situation, have been able to do so since they have had sufficient economic solvency, a solid family structure or the means and necessary resources for monitoring online training.
However, many other students have not had this same support network and conditions, so it has been much more difficult for them to adapt to this new context ", therefore, the initiative of the councilor It intends not to leave any university student behind for financial reasons. Likewise, he considers that "students need a lifeline to hold on to in this unprecedented situation of extraordinary crisis and above all because it presents a very uncertain future for them since they do not know how and when they can finish their university studies and achieve so his future purposes.
" Therefore, as Murcia City Council, the administration closest to citizens, "we have an obligation to protect students regardless of what the data indicates because that is the philosophy of the public university that we want and we all have to defend". Remember that the Government of Spain has eliminated the fork system that has had such an impact on the structure of university prices, modifying, through the Royal Decree-Law approved to provide support measures to the cultural sector due to the situation derived from COVID-19 , the Organic Law 6/2001 of Universities. "This modification allows the autonomous communities that provide university services to widen the range of tuition prices so that students can access the university system with prices according to the family purchasing level in which they are," says Fructuoso, who He adds that "in this way we will guarantee a progressive, fair, equitable system, typical of a country where public education takes precedence." However, he acknowledges, "this formula remains in the hands of the autonomous management and depends on the political will of each government, in this case that of the Region of Murcia, to carry it out." "It is the responsibility of the Regional Government and the Murcia City Council to guarantee access and continuity of university studies so that no young person is obliged to abandon their studies because they do not face the payment of the second enrollment that is being required of them.
these moments and not as they were promised that the suspensions of the second semester of the 2019/2020 course were not going to be penalized, "the councilor added. For all these reasons, it proposes to the plenary session to urge the regional government to modify the public price order in order to maintain the cost for subjects suspended during the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year and also requests that, "while this situation is not resolved and Since we do not yet have municipal budgets, an economic budget is provided so that students from the municipality of Murcia with fewer resources can face the payment of second university enrollment.
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Source: PSOE Murcia
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