The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martin (PSOE)stressed this Friday, April 14 in Morning in the Canary Islandsin Cope, who will continue “exploring any alternative with the new rector, as he did with the previous rector, so that the modification of the hours of the University of La Laguna (ULL)help reduce bottlenecks in the Northern highway (TF-5)», and announced that «the plenary session of this month will go to the approval of an economic item to finance an agreement with the Medicine Degree of the ULL so that they change their hours of entry. In principle, and in the absence of closing that definitive agreement, Martín anticipates that “The first three Medicine courses can start later, at ten in the morning”.
Peter Martin He added that the authorization of this economic item will make it possible to formalize the compensation agreement with that degree if it is closed. «We will see if there are other faculties in which there are possibilities. Not in all it is possiblebut those in which we see a predisposition to delay the schedule, we will try, “he stressed.
Martín understands that each faculty or degree has autonomy to formalize this type of agreement with the Council of Tenerife, «but always under the umbrella of the university, it is not that everyone does what they want. Our proposal was made to the University of La Laguna as a whole, but if there are faculties interested in closing agreements to modify their schedules, we are willing to do so, logically also in agreement with the rector”. As reported by the ULL, in the Degree in Medicine there is an average of about 360 students enrolled in the first three courses.
The insular plenary session will approve this month the economic item to finance this agreement
The new rector of the ULL, the professor of Business Organization Francisco Garciaalso declared in Cope, that the request of the Council of Tenerife of modifying the entrance hours in some faculties “is difficult in the grades that have a greater number of students and teachers, so they have to organize a double shift, and that would imply that the students left at four or half past four in the afternoon in the morning shift and ten or half past ten in the afternoon shift. So there’s little room.” However, he was open to talking to the Council of Tenerife “of many things”, among which will be the possible collaboration of the ULL to reduce the historical traffic jams on the TF-5.
The new rector of the ULL, Francisco García, assures that “there is little margin” in terms of schedules
García was willing to analyze “any minimum option to move forward”, but clarified that “it is not only about modifying schedules but perhaps making entry times more flexible and we are going to raise that. Delaying the schedules of the major degrees I see as complicated, but in improving mobility and transport, the ULL is here to collaborate, as in the rest of the great challenges that this island has. So we will talk to the Cabildo, without any doubt».
«A mobility plan is being made at the ULL, which is not finished yet, and it is possible that there is an option to modify schedules in some Faculty of Health Sciences. In the large degrees, with a large influx of people, there is no margin, but we have to talk if it is possible to take any measure, “reiterated the new rector.
Peter Martin announced at the end of March that it would offer the University of La Laguna an extra aid of 10 million euros for those faculties that can or are able to delay the start of classes at 10:00 a.m. An offer that was raised for two years and with a global contribution of 20 million euros.
