Following the story of the alleged irregularities in the tests for the faculty of medicine, several students in Naples gathered in a committee and, assisted by the law firm Pisani and Scaringia, decided to “go to the bottom of this: they are providing us with documents and evidence – declares the lawyer Pisani – to ask the judiciary to cancel and repeat the tests for admission to the faculty”.
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“We are also ready to ask for compensation for damages and reimbursement of expenses for all the students betrayed and damaged in their dreams”, adds the lawyer, according to whom the restricted number is “unfair, illogical and unconstitutional”.
“According to what many aspiring doctors have tearfully reported to me – Pisani continues, thus confirming what has already leaked elsewhere – someone allegedly paid thousands of euros to enroll in a preparation course that allowed them to know the test questions in advance.
Others instead found a Telegram group where leaks were circulating about the questions that aspiring doctors would be asked. Everything should be reset - he concludes - and all damages should be compensated to the students who were victims of chaos and very serious violations of the basic principles of transparency, correctness and good faith that have been completely ignored".
Minister Bernini: “Checks underway”
The consortium “Cisia has informed us that the rumors” about the alleged buying and selling of questions for medical textbooks are unfounded “and confirmed that there were no irregularities. The checks – explains the Minister of Universities, Anna Maria Bernini, to the Sole 24 Ore – are in any case underway. It is in our interest to shed full light on this matter to protect students first and foremost. The Tolc for medicine are at their first practical test, if they don’t work we are ready to review them”.
“Our goal,” adds the executive representative, “is to continue to open, always in a sustainable way, access to medicine.” The budget law “will not be simple,” admits Bernini, “but there are priorities that the government does not question. Protecting the right to education is one of these.”
“This year we have set ourselves another goal,” the minister revealed, “to guarantee scholarships also to eligible non-beneficiaries, so as to fully cover the group of those entitled.” Another “priority” of the government “is the strengthening of scholarships for research doctorates in general and with particular reference to those that embrace the subjects of the future, such as artificial intelligence and quantum technologies,” Bernini added.
On the increase in beds envisaged by the PNRR, “the target on accommodation is decidedly challenging,” the minister admits. “It is clear that public and private investments in university accommodation must be made more attractive.”
Article published on 8 September 2023 - 07:47
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