Palma, (EFE).- The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) has accepted that the statements and protocols of the exams of the Ebau university entrance exams be distributed in Catalan and Spanish on equal terms, as requested by the platform Escuela de Todos Baleares for these exams, which begin on June 6 on the islands.
The teachers’ organization PLIS. Education, please, and the Balearic Civil Society have been satisfied by this “rectification” announced by the Vice-Rector for Students of the Balearic public university, Carmen Touza, and hope that her verbal instructions will be transferred to a written and official document .
Delivery of the exam at the request of the student
As the platform has explained in a note, from the UIB they have indicated that the distribution of these Ebau exams with statements and protocols in Catalan and Spanish must be carried out with total equality and neutrality, avoiding in any case the express and public request of exams in Spanish. The supervising teachers must go table by table and give the exam in Catalan or Spanish, at the request of the student.
Initially, the linguistic instructions for the distribution of the exams established that the statements and protocols would be given in Catalan and that a translation into Spanish would only be provided to those students who, having previously received the statements and protocols in Catalan, expressly request it in Spanish. .
Contentious-administrative appeal before the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands
During a meeting with the corrective teachers and supervisors of the entrance exams, the vice-rector has read the contentious-administrative appeal that the PLIS teachers’ association. Education filed before the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands for violation of fundamental rights.
Specifically, Touza has recognized that the legal and pedagogical foundation of the appeal was well argued and that the request to annul the instruction that forced all the exams to be handed out in Catalan first and only hand out the exams in Spanish to the students who expressly did so should be upheld. they will sue
He added that the legal service of the UIB has recommended that the university authority accept the PLIS request. Education, please, for being adjusted to law.
From PLIS. Education, please wish that the verbal instructions by the vice-rector be translated into a written and official document, while Societat Civil Balear, which has provided legal advice to the organization, has lamented that “you always have to fight in court the most elementary rights.
Request for a single selectivity test throughout Spain
In addition, Escuela de Todos has once again demanded that the highest officials of the central government guarantee a single selectivity test throughout Spain, with unified content and correction criteria and ensuring bilingual statements in all the autonomous communities with a double official language.